The "Praying the Steps" tradition consists ... or pray just a little bit more," Larry Cochran with Holy Cross Immaculata Parish said. People are invited to pray on the steps in Mt.

People pray the 97 steps from St. Gregory St. to Holy Cross-Immaculata Church in 2013. The custom of climbing the steps dates back to 1870. It happens every Good Friday, rain or shine. People even ...

Pope Francis told the estimated 800,000 young people praying the Stations of the Cross together at World Youth Day in Portugal on Friday evening that Jesus can open the windows of the soul and ...

MOUNT ADAMS, Ohio (WKRC) - Thousands of people carried on a Cincinnati holy week tradition Friday. The tradition of Praying the Steps began at Holy Cross Immaculata in Mount Adams in the 1850s.

CINCINNATI — People were already gathered at Holy Cross Immaculata in Mount Adams Thursday evening to partake in the Good Friday tradition of "praying the steps." Thousands of people are ...

The "Praying the Steps" tradition consists of people praying while walking up the ... The top of the staircase leads to the entrance of Holy Cross Immaculata Parish. Sign up for our Newsletters ...

Bishop Sergio Buenanueva of San Francisco, in the province of Cordoba, told Crux that people began to pray for the pope spontaneously as the news on his pneumonia arrived. “I’ve been ...

The Good Friday Community Cross Walk, hosted by the Leechburg ... that other people know it’s important to pray for God, and now people can see the crosses driving around town.” ...

It's individual people — the critically ill and the dying — who allow me to be with them in what might be their final journey with a prayer, a touch and the cross. No one should be alone ...

Within that “zone,” anyone found praying, making the Sign of the Cross, reciting Scripture or ... and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. Speaking to the Register, McLatchie said ...

Hundreds of Long Islanders took part in an annual holy tradition to mark Good Friday. Long Islanders sang, prayed and reflected at each of the 14 stations of the cross at the Cemetery of the Holy ...

Starting well before dawn on the Friday before Easter, Cincinnati’s Catholics offer a prayer on each step as they ascend the stairs from Gregory Street in Mount Adams to the doors of Holy Cross ...