Tyler Lengerich screams whereas a crown of thorns is positioned on his head because the eighth grade class from Saint John the Baptist Center Faculty presents the Dwelling Stations of the Cross at Juan Diego Catholic Excessive Faculty in Draper on Thursday, March 30, 2023. Laura Seitz, Deseret Information
Tyler Lengerich cries out whereas a crown of thorns is positioned on his head because the eighth grade class from Saint John the Baptist Center Faculty presents the Dwelling Stations of the Cross at Juan Diego Catholic Excessive Faculty in Draper on Thursday.
For Roman Catholics all through the world, the Stations of the Cross are synonymous with Lent, Holy Week and particularly Good Friday. This devotion, also called the “Method of the Cross,” the “By way of Crucis” and the “By way of Dolorosa,” commemorates 14 key occasions on the day of Christ’s crucifixion. Nearly all of occasions concern his remaining stroll by the streets of Jerusalem whereas carrying the cross.
The item of the stations is to assist the Christian devoted make a religious pilgrimage by contemplation of the Ardour of Christ. A sequence of 14 photographs generally are organized in numbered order alongside a path, and the devoted journey from picture to picture, so as, stopping at every station to say chosen prayers and reflections.