{"id":7740,"date":"2023-03-16T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/good-friday-2023-way-cross-procession-led-mgr-christian-lepine-through\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:15:21","slug":"good-friday-2023-way-cross-procession-led-mgr-christian-lepine-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/good-friday-2023-way-cross-procession-led-mgr-christian-lepine-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday 2023: Way of the Cross procession led by Mgr Christian  L\u00e9pine through the streets of Old Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the occasion of <strong>Good Friday<\/strong>, Communion and Liberation (CL&nbsp;Canada) organizes the Way of the Cross procession led by Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine through the&nbsp;streets of Old Montreal on <strong>April 7, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>An expected few hundred participants will start the procession at <strong>9:30 a.m.<\/strong> at the historical <strong>Chapel&nbsp;of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours<\/strong> to continue to the <strong>Notre-Dame Basilica<\/strong>, followed by <strong>Saint&nbsp;Patrick Basilica<\/strong> and <strong>Church of the Ges\u00f9<\/strong>, then passing through <strong>Place Ville Marie<\/strong> to arrive&nbsp;around <strong>noon <\/strong>at <strong>Mary Queen of the World Cathedral<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>This commemoration of the Passion of our Lord on Good Friday is a public event open to all. Prayers&nbsp;and readings will be read upon arrival at each of the six stations and the CL choir will perform Lenten&nbsp;hymns in Latin, French, English, Ukrainian, and Polish. Reverent silence will be observed during the&nbsp;<br \/>\nprocession from one religious site to the next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h4>ABOUT COMMUNION AND LIBERATION CANADA:<\/h4>\n\n<p>Communion and Liberation is an international movement, within the Catholic Church, composed of&nbsp;a wide range of people who are convinced that the Christian event lived in communion is the true&nbsp;basis for the human person\u2019s freedom. Communion and Liberation is present in Canada from coast&nbsp;to coast with communities in Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg,Calgary, Edmonton,&nbsp;Victoria, Vancouver. More about Communion and Liberation can be found here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/english.clonline.org\/pubblications\/other-texts\/miscellany\/communion-and-liberation-a-movement-in-the-church\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/42aAn3T<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h4>THE EVENT POSTER:<\/h4>\n\n<p>A cross by the Italian artist Maurizio Giglio, made from the wood of a&nbsp;<strong>migrant boat sunken<\/strong> on the shores of Calabria, in Italy, on February 26,2023. Father Francesco&nbsp;Loprete of the Diocese of Crotone and artist Maurizio Giglio went to the beach that was the scene of&nbsp;the tragedy that cost the lives of dozens and dozens of migrants. Together they picked up some&nbsp;remains of the vessel, which ended up on the shoreline. On the meaning of the work, Giglio&nbsp;commented, &#8220;Christ is stylized, there is <strong>only one arm<\/strong>. It is as if He is <strong>reaching out to us from&nbsp;the top of the Cross<\/strong>. An invitation to repent, a message of salvation. I did not make this work with&nbsp;joy, far from it. When touching the Cross you really feel all the pain and the cries of those poor&nbsp;people.&#8221; Following his appeal made during the Sunday Angelus on March 5, 2023, that &#8220;the journeys&nbsp;of hope never more be transformed into journeys of death,&#8221; Pope Francis repeated his call for &#8220;welcome and solidarity&#8221; towards migrants.<\/p>\n\n<p>For more information, you may contact Cristina Ardelean, Executive Director of the En Route&nbsp;Foundation, a nonprofit corporation which sustains the missionary and educational work of&nbsp;Communion and Liberation in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Good Friday, Communion and Liberation (CL&nbsp;Canada) organizes the Way of the Cross procession led by Archbishop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}