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 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 ...

in a procession re-enacting Jesus Christ's carrying of the cross. It was the first year for a small group. Forty-one years later, Leon again participated in the annual procession. With him were ...

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

As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Simon was a passerby; he was no relation to Jesus ... of a huge cross on his way to be crucified. Simon didn't volunteer to help. He was forced into this very difficult job of carrying a heavy ...