Day 10: The way of the Cross

The church of the Visitation



But at daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.  They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.  They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?  He is not here, but he has been raised.  Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”  And they remembered his words.  Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others.
Luke 24: 1-9
Birthplace of St John the Baptist
Map of Via Dolorosa
Crown of thorns mosaic on ceiling of church at the 2nd Station.
Fr Ed and Deacon Tom celebrating Mass at the Holy Sepulchre. 



Kissing the hole where the cross stood on Calvary.

The western wall Jerusalem






Prayer intentions: For Holocaust survivors and their families, people who need to forgive or ask for forgiveness, those who are sick, military and police, for true world peace that ends division and conflict, the abandoned, neglected, abused, people who need to turn toward God's loving mercy, and for all of the prayer intentions we bring with us.  Amen