File photo of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum (Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV to carry the Cross throughout Via Crucis at
Colosseum
Pope Leo XIV will preside over the Way of the Cross at the
Colosseum on Friday, 3 April, during the traditional Good Friday liturgy
commemorating the journey of Jesus to Golgotha. The meditations have been
written by Franciscan Father Francesco Patton.
Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV will preside over all fourteen stations of the
Way of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum, carrying the Cross himself throughout the
liturgy in what will be his first Holy Friday celebration as Pope.
The meditations for this year’s ceremony have been entrusted
to Franciscan Father Francesco Patton, who served as Custos of the Holy Land
from 2016 to 2025. The Holy See Press Office announced that the texts will be
published on Friday morning, around midday.
Father Patton, a Friar Minor often writing from Mount Nebo
in Jordan, has frequently given voice to the suffering of the people of the
Middle East, particularly during the present period marked by conflict and
instability.
In the previous year, as in 2024, the meditations were
prepared by Pope Francis, following his return to the Casa Santa Marta after a
prolonged hospitalisation at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. The Holy Friday
celebration on 18 April 2025 was instead presided over, at the Pope’s request,
by the Cardinal Vicar of the Diocese of Rome, Baldassarre Reina.
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