University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know ...

Volunteers took turns carrying a 7-foot-tall wooden cross on Oxmoor Road, getting a small sense of what Jesus endured on Good Friday. “It felt like a heavy burden,” said Aidan Pearson ...

early Netherlandish religious painting, Rogier van der Weyden’s “The Descent From the Cross.” A large Good Friday scene some 8 1/2 feet wide, the oil-on-panel work, dated before 1443 ...

Even after 40 years of a celebrated painting career often focused on Jesus Christ ... “Just to be physically carried by the Savior,” she says. “I want that — to be wrapped up in his ...

SCRIPTURES & ART: Our suffering is tailor-made for our capacities, and by it we grow in holiness when we join it to the suffering and cross of Christ. Barna da Siena, “Christ Bearing the Cross ...

(Rick Kintzel/The Morning Call) Sacred Heart Church parishioner Jessy Severino, portraying Jesus, carries the cross Friday, April 7, 2023, during a Spanish-language Living Stations of the Cross in ...

It’s a Homewood tradition that dates back more than 30 years, but it’s part of a larger tradition that dates back 2,000 years. The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in ...

Community members started walking through the Town of Louisa together at 7:30 a.m., and shared opportunities to hold and carry a cross like Jesus did before his crucifixion. Participants also had ...

Catholic faithful in Kensington marked Good Friday on April 18 with a “Stations of the Cross” procession, symbolizing Jesus’ journey as he carried the cross before his crucifixion and resurrection on ...