Good Friday Stations

Crosses made by children during Children's Liturgy
Right Cross: see the sun and blue sky, blue for river Lune, the church and people,the green hills below, and a blue figure just below helping Jesus, 

Stations of the Cross are a traditional prayer for Lent, especially on Good Friday as we pray and reflect on Jesus' journey to Golgotha where he was crucified and died. For a link to a video reflection on the stations prepared by parishioner. In the morning parishioners gathered for stations of the cross and prayed those familiar words.

Stations - Lent 2013

Before meditating on each station:   

We adore you O Christ, and we bless you,

Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world

After meditating on each station, a prayer which some will use as an act of contrition in the sacrament of reconciliation:
   

I love you Jesus, my love, above all things;

I repent with my whole heart for having offended youNever permit me to separate myself from you again.

Grant that I may love you always,
then do with me what you will.

In the afternoon the children also prayed the stations, reflecting on images of each station, saying a prayer to help them get up and try again, like Jesus after he fell carrying his cross, or sharing their experiences of how they had been helped by someone like Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus.  At each station they sang the refrain 'Jesus we adore you, lay our lives before you, how we love you'.
They also took some time to colour their own crosses, some of them making crosses in the style of the El Salvador crosses but with a Lancaster focus.

Children colouring their crosses