Good Friday | Stations of the Cross

In observation of Good Friday, we will join to walk the Stations of the Cross at 5:30 pm. Please meet at the first station located outside the front of Apostle’s Chapel.

The Stations of the Cross, or The Way of the Cross,  is a devotion to the Passion of Christ which recalls a series of events at the end of Jesus’ life from his condemnation to his burial. The Way of the Cross imitates the practice of visiting the places of Jesus’ Passion in the Holy Land by early Christian pilgrims. The first stations outside Palestine were built in Bologna in the fifth century. This devotion was encouraged by the Franciscans, and it became common in the fifteenth century. The number of stations for prayer and meditation in the Way of the Cross has varied, but it typically includes fourteen stations. The BOS includes the following stations in the Way of the Cross:
1) Jesus is condemned to death;
2) Jesus takes up his cross;
3) Jesus falls the first time;
4) Jesus meets his afflicted mother;
5) the cross is laid on Simon of Cyrene;
6) a woman wipes the face of Jesus;
7) Jesus falls a second time;
8) Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem;
9) Jesus falls a third time;
10) Jesus is stripped of his garments;
11) Jesus is nailed to the cross;
12) Jesus dies on the cross;
13) the body of Jesus is placed in the arms of his mother;
14) Jesus is laid in the tomb.