Tag: stations of the cross

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.

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.

Hundreds of pilgrims took up the cross for the final week of the three-week pilgrimage in Sydney's central deanery, which concluded on Palm Sunday at St Joachim's Lidcombe with Mass celebrated by Bishop Richard Umbers

What we do with our body forms the soul and our beliefs. That’s why it’s so important to take part in processions and other public displays of faith, writes Fr Bijoy Joseph, assistant priest of St Joachim’s Lidcombe.

On the outskirts of Sydney, set in acres of tranquil bushland, is the hidden gem of the St Joseph Conference Centre at Bringelly. It is home to not only conference facilities and a Memorial Park but also the most beautiful life-sized white statues depicting the Stations of the Cross. 

By Judith Kennedy Family Prayer has become an important practice at Our Lady of Fatima Kingsgrove. Each Wednesday morning a grade leads prayer for any families...

“If anyone has hurt us, if we think anyone owes us something, if we think anyone has done us wrong, Christ is ready to pay that debt in full,” said Somascan Religious Fr Chris de Sousa CRS to a crowded St Christopher’s parish in Holsworthy at the Veneration of the Cross on Friday 15 April.

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

By God's grace, participation in a prayer or action that has an indulgence attached to it brings about the necessary restoration and reparation without the suffering that would normally accompany it.

Weekday Rosary at 7:10pm followed by Mass/ Adoration and Stations of the Cross.

For the past 133 years, the magnificent Stations of the Cross hanging in St Mary’s Cathedral have provided a devotional focus for Sydney’s Catholics...

Youth at St Felix de Valois, Bankstown, set a sombre scene to their re-enactment of the Passion.