“To maintain your health in anticipation of tomorrow’s All-Night Vigil [este sábado] and Easter Sunday Mass, Pope Francis will continue tonight [ontem] Way of the Cross in the Colosseum from Casa Santa Marta.” This was reported by the press service of the Holy See after doctors advised the Pope to stay at home.
However, the reflections were his own for the first time, and in these texts Pope Francis condemned the “madness of war” and violence against women.
At the eighth station, when Christ met the women of Jerusalem, Francis recognized “the greatness of women” and remembered “those who today continue to be rejected, subjected to reproach and violence.”
During a slow walk along the Via Dolorosa, the Pontiff recalled that “Humanity cries before the madness of war, before the faces of children who no longer know how to smile, before mothers who see them exhausted and hungry, having no more tears to shed.”
In Portugal, this Good Friday marked the cancellation of many processions and reenactments of the Passion of Christ, as happened in Braga.
A different situation occurred in Lisbon, where the traditional Way of the Cross took place through the streets of Baixa and in the presence of thousands of people.
The ceremony, organized by the parishes of Baixa and Chiado and the Communion and Liberation movement, included biblical readings and texts by Charles Péguy, Dostoevsky and Pope Francis.
Author: Secundino Cunha
Source: CM Jornal
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