Grant us, Lord Jesus, a grateful and pious heart to walk your sorrowful way with ... “Jesus was carrying his cross. Great show! But, if impiety contemplates it, great scorn; if piety, great mystery; ...

Most people drive past Reedy Branch Original Free Will Baptist Church while hardly noticing the white cross atop the steeple. But on Good Friday, church members set out to carry the cross into ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and ... must have been one of the nails that crucified Jesus. For him, as for Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, Catholicism ...

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The next mystery is the Sorrowful Mystery, which dwells on Jesus’ anguished prayers in Gethsemane, His flogging, being crowned with thorns, being forced to carry the cross, and His crucifixion. The ...

(Matthew 27:31-35; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-18) The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery overlaps ... murder does not want Jesus to die while carrying his cross. They do not want him to ...

Lean on Community The fourth sorrowful mystery, the Carrying of the Cross, encapsulates the heavy burdens we bear. As Jesus carries his cross along his journey to Golgotha, he demonstrates the ...

The first time I remember praying the rosary of my own volition was in fourth grade ... how much the luminous mysteries resonate with me. The luminous mysteries show Jesus’ light in the world.

But one thing it has certainly done already is facilitate endless (and endlessly strange) representations of Jesus Christ. In a recent article for The Atlantic, my colleague Caroline Mimbs Nyce ...

This is Armenian artist Toros Roslin’s depiction of Jesus saving Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace. Roslin lived from 1210-70. (Courtesy Photo) The story of the Fourth Man in ...

"I am trying to reach the lost, to show Alliance what Jesus did on Calvary," Mason Polinori said, explaining his mission. "Carrying the cross is to kind of show people there is another way ...