also called the "Way of the Cross," or "Via Crucis," refers to the devotional prayer practice that commemorates the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The ancient prayer began ...

In Holy Week, the days just before ... The Stations of the Cross devotion is centered on the Passion of Christ. While many Catholics pray the meditative prayer on their own across the year ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum ... Pope Francis described the Way of the Cross as “the prayer of people on the move” that “disrupts our usual routine” to lead from ...

This prayer ... Holy Saturday. No candles are lit today. Mother or a child: "May our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who alone by his powerful word governs all things, yet has buried the shame of the ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving that Catholics ... That means you may see someone walking around with an ash cross on their forehead this Wednesday. Don't try to clean ...

“Pope Francis really exemplified what it meant to be merciful," Myers told a reporter in the St. Joseph Chapel at Holy Cross College, moments before the prayer service began. “He reached out ...

The Archdiocese of Boston on Friday announced the Holy ... Prayer at the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at 11:30 p.m. Good Friday begins with morning prayer at 9 a.m., followed by live Stations of the ...