Family educators of the Auburn/Lakemba network recently facilitated the fourth annual Stations of the Cross.
Held in the Way of the Cross Chapel in Rookwood, the Stations were observed at the peaceful Rookwood Cemetery with the devotion being led by Fr Maurice T Thompson EV and Fr Nen Dang.
Frequent attendee Clare Colman says the event is a “peaceful and contemplative way of walking the Stations.”
“The fact that you’re surrounded by grace and just that sense of the death and resurrection and grief as well as the hope of the resurrections makes it very special,” she told The Catholic Weekly.
“There’s a time for prayer on your own and there’s also a time for doing it in community.”
She said there were dozens of people from all over Sydney who followed the stations as one group, even though they are all there for their own reasons.
“Each person is there with a different experience on the day, for a lot of people, they might have recently lost someone,” she said.
“The first time I went to the one at Rookwood, I had just lost my mum, so it was quite profound in that moment knowing that she was walking alongside me and the number of times she would have gone to the Stations of the Cross over the years.”
The Stations of the Cross is just one of many events held by the Auburn Lakemba Network helping to provide school families with enriched faith experiences.