Livia Iñamagua crossed the Brooklyn Bridge as a thank you to Jesus Christ for the favors in her life.
Just meters from her, the priests carried the cross in a procession that recalls the path of Jesus’ Via Crucis.
“The Lord’s sacrifice on Good Friday is the love that he has for humanity, for me it is Good Friday, that’s why I am here, remembering and following the steps he took,” said Livia.
Precisely, the Via Dolorosa is an act of mercy, a path of prayer that contains 14 stations that correspond to particular incidents that, according to Catholic tradition, Jesus suffered for the salvation of humanity.
Inside the Basilica of Saint James in Brooklyn, each of the seasons are represented.
Before the procession, hundreds of people attended to listen to the passion of Christ. One of them was María Teresa Alonso.
Alonso.
“What Jesus suffered is showing us that he, with everything he has suffered, has washed away our sins from all human beings. We must be grateful to him, because he gave his life for us on the cross,” Alonso said.
“He suffered without complaining and he knew he was going to die, and he never gave up. He continued, his death and his passion is what gives us strength, with God and the Virgin always forward and forward,” said Isabel Navarro.
At one of the stations the parishioners stopped to pray and read one of the quotes from Saint Paul.
Therefore I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us. of the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,” he said to himself.
Catholics in a Good Friday procession.
And so, carrying the cross, the scene is remembered when Jesus was led to his death, but not before suffering until he reached Calvary.
Good Friday and Holy Saturday, before the resurrection, are the only days in the Catholic liturgical calendar where Mass is not celebrated, as a mourning for the death of Jesus.
