a freshman at Parsippany Hills High School. Madeline Harmon, 15, will be playing Jesus in the "Cross Carry" a play the Christian Drama School of New Jersey has been performing for more than 20 years.

Volunteers took turns carrying a 7-foot-tall wooden cross on Oxmoor Road, getting a small sense of what Jesus endured on Good Friday. “It felt like a heavy burden,” said Aidan Pearson ...

“It’s a very emotional thing,” said Stec, a Lake-Lehman High School senior who intends ... from the crowd and force him to help Jesus carry the cross, because Jesus, who has already lost ...

It’s a Homewood tradition that dates back more than 30 years, but it’s part of a larger tradition that dates back 2,000 years. The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in ...

The Christian Drama School of New Jersey says 15-year-old Maddie Harmon was the only one to play Jesus and carry the heavy 12-foot cross for more than two miles. The school says they just didn't ...

It is interesting. Simon didn’t offer to help Jesus carry the cross. The Gospel says that Simon was “pressed into service to carry his cross.” The cross was forced on him, he was made to ...

even when given a choice to free Jesus or Barabbas, followed by Jesus carrying the cross and being hung on it to die.

Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and his death immediately ... A screenshot of the video shows the man carrying a wood cross through Alqosh, Iraq on April 2, 2021.

That's a departure for the Christian Drama School of New Jersey — which normally casts a boy in the Jesus role for its annual "Cross Carry," a Good Friday tradition for 23 years. More formidably ...