Easter Vigil

This is Easter

Via Crucis in Chicago

I've always wanted to see the Via Crucis in Pilsen. Maybe another year. These photos are from the Chicago Tribune.


Crucifixion
(Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / April 10, 2009)
Arturo Raigosa, 26, playing Jesus Christ, undergoes a mock crucifixion in Harrison Park during a the "Stations of the Cross" ceremony in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. At his feel lifting the cross in place are actors playing Roman soldiers.


Mary and the crucifixion
(Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / April 10, 2009)
Juana Diaz (center), playing Mary, watches the crucifixion during a reenactment of the "Stations of the Cross" in Pilsen's Harrison Park.


Stations of the Cross
(Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / April 10, 2009)
Arturo Raigosa, 26, as Jesus Christ, walks with his cross down 18th Street in Pilsen during the Good Friday tradition called the "Stations of the Cross" that commemorates the final hours of Jesus' life.


Stations of the Cross
(Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / April 10, 2009)
Boys playing Roman soldiers walk down 18th Street during a reenactment of the "Stations of the Cross" in Pilsen.


Stations of the Cross
(Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / April 10, 2009)
Hector Alvarez, 23, of Chicago plays a crucified thief during a reenactment of the "Stations of the Cross" in Pilsen's Harrison Park.

Scourged

Stations of the Cross

First Station: Jesus is condemned to death



Second Station: Jesus carries His cross



Third Station: Jesus falls the first time



Fourth Station: Jesus meets his mother



Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry his cross



Sixth Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus



Seventh Station: Jesus falls the second time



Eighth Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem



Ninth Station: Jesus falls a third time



Tenth Station: Jesus clothes are taken away



Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross



Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the cross



Thirteenth Station: The body of Jesus is taken down from the cross



Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb

Easter

We went to mass early this morning. The church is beautiful as always.

Happy Easter!

Good Friday

John 19
19
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, "Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews."
20
Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am the King of the Jews.'"
22
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
23
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.
24
So they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be," in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled (that says): "They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots." This is what the soldiers did.
25
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
26
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."
27
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
28
After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst."
29
There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth.
30
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
31
Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.
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So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
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But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs,
34
but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
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An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may (come to) believe.
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For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: "Not a bone of it will be broken."
37
And again another passage says: "They will look upon him whom they have pierced."

Good Friday

John
Chapter 19
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.
2 And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak,
3and they came to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck him repeatedly.