Tag: Good Friday

Braving forecasts of rain and rising petrol prices, about 5000 people attended the annual Good Friday Passion Play at the Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy in Penrose Park.

Torch flames flickered against nearly 2,000-year-old stone walls as crowds packed the streets around the Colosseum, praying alongside the pope through the traditional Via Crucis on the first Good Friday of his pontificate April 3.

Witnessing both birth and death reveals a shared truth as both are marked by wonder, pain, and the need for others. This Easter, we are reminded that death is not simply to be managed, but understood in the light of Christ.

Pope Leo XIV will carry the cross himself through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum on the first Good Friday of his pontificate.

For 40 years Sydney’s best-kept Holy Week secret has been hiding in plain sight in Our Lady of Victories parish in Horsley Park.

On Good Friday, the church accompanied Jesus in his passion, torture, crucifixion and death. On Holy Saturday, we mark his passage into the tomb as the world parties on over the long weekend.

From the silent era through the mid-1960s, Bible-based films constituted a reliable staple of Hollywood's output. Directors both famous and obscure mined the Scriptures for stories they could bring to the big screen, with results that ranged from the reverential to the exploitative.

Passion play actors who literally walk with, and as Christ, on Good Friday are transformed through the experience and touched by the effects on others.

The innocent Jesus or the bloodthirsty Barabbas? The true Son of God or the imposter-god the August Caesar? Courage or betrayal? Power or sacrifice? Truth or falsehood? In the face of indifference, fear and hatred, what do we choose?

Amidst the worst of human cruelty, fear and grief, we can seem to be enveloped by evil. But goodness is never completely extinguished

Jesus dies, the disciples are scattered, everything seems lost - that's the experience of Easter. But something beyond imagining is almost upon us with the dawning of the Resurrection

Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP, who celebrated both services, said Catholics across Australia were extremely grateful to the Seven Network for making the national broadcasts possible