Good Friday: Stations of the Cross.

Every Friday groups of pilgrims and local Christian residents take to the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem to follow the Via Dolorosa, the Way of the Cross. The fourteen 'Stations of the Cross' mark significant steps along the road that Jesus took on that first 'Good Friday', as he was marched from the Antonia Fortress, the place of his condemnation and flogging, to the site of His crucifixion at Golgotha, the 'place of the skull', Calvary, and on to His brief resting place in the new-hewn rock tomb nearby.

By His death and resurrection, Jesus redeemed mankind by taking on the weight of the sins of the world, accepting death freely as an offering, and by rising again to life on the 3rd day, thereby forever breaking the chains of sin and death, and giving believers the hope of sharing in the everlasting life of God our Father.


The Stations of the Cross.

1.  Jesus is condemned by Pontius Pilate.
2.  Jesus receives his Cross.
3.  Jesus falls under the weight of the Cross.
4.  Jesus meets his mother.
5.  Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross.
6.  Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.
7.  Jesus falls a second time.
8.  Jesus speaks to the daughters 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. Jesus is taken down from the Cross
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb.

Link: http://www.holylandnetwork.com/jerusalem/via_dolorosa/via_dolorosa.htm



A group from St. George's College and Cathedral praying the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, April 17th, 1987 in the Old City of Jerusalem.