Mangaluru: Many Devotees attend Way of the Cross held at St Anthony’s Ashram, Jeppu

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 26 Mar: St Anthony’s Ashram, Jeppu, here held the Way of the Cross at Ashram grounds on Sunday, March 24, in remembrance of the passion and death Jesus suffered to redeem humanity from the chains of sin.

 

The Christian community has begun the season of Lent on March 6 with the imposition of ashes on the head. The forty-day of Lent is observed in remembrance of forty years of journey of Israelites in the desert before they reached the Promised Land and the forty-days of fasting and prayer done by Jesus before He began His public life. The season of Lent is a season of cleansing; it’s a season of grace which involves fasting, giving up pleasures and practicing almsgiving.

 

 

In his homily, Fr Santhosh Lobo, parish priest of Our Lady of Dolours Church, Kasargod, said, ‘The need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus if we wish to be called as followers of Jesus. While we conduct the devotion of Way of the Cross it is necessary to walk the way of the cross in our life when difficulties come on our way by submitting ourselves to the will of God.’

 

Prem Kumar and team conducted the Way of the Cross. More than 500 people participated in the devotion.

 

Fr Onil D’Souza, director of Ashram thanked all those who participated in the Way of the Cross and all those who conducted the devotion.