The Holy Father writes meditations for Good Friday Way of the Cross

Pope Francis has written the meditations that will be read during the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday, 29 March.

Each year different people are entrusted with writing the meditations. This year however, the Holy Father decided to write them himself, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, disclosed to journalists on Tuesday, 26 March.

“In prayer with Jesus on the Way of the Cross” is the theme of the reflections that will accompany the 14 stations.

This gesture is an act of meditation and spirituality, with Jesus at the centre, in the context of the Year of Prayer proclaimed by the Pope. It will be focused, he noted, on Christ who makes the Way of the Cross and allows one to walk alongside him. “It is all centred on what Jesus experiences in that moment, and it is clear that it also enlarges on the theme of suffering,” with a broad, indirect reference to current events.