WelCom April 2023
The Way of the Cross
‘I am the Light of the world’, is the theme for Lent 2023.
In his message for Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, 22 February, until Easter 2023, Pope Francis invited us to set out on the Lenten journey. In his message, the Holy Father says, ‘Lenten penance’ is a ‘commitment, sustained by grace, to overcoming our lack of faith and our resistance to following Jesus on the way of the cross. This is precisely what Peter and the other disciples needed to do.
‘In this sense to understand and embrace the mystery of his salvation, accomplished in total self-giving by love, we must allow ourselves to be taken aside by him and to detach ourselves from mediocrity and vanity,’ Pope Francis stressed.
Holy Week, leading up to Easter 2023, begins with Palm Sunday – also known as Passion Sunday – on 2 April. Good Friday is on 7 April.
The Stations of the Cross, found in churches and in some churchyards as a series of 14 small images depicting the main scenes of Christ’s sufferings and death, are prayed as a pilgrimage during Lent and especially on Good Friday, the day of the year on which the events occurred.
Easter Sunday, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus bringing new life and hope, is on 9 April.
