austraLasia #3048
A multicultural Stations of the Cross
MELBOURNE -- Good Friday Morning, the Vietnamese community at St. Margaret Mary's Parish Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, led the traditional Way of the Cross. St. Margaret Mary's Parish has traditionally acted out the "Way of the Cross" largely organised by its Australian and Italian parish membership. This year the Vietnamese community in the parish organised the event, presenting it as it might have been long ago ...
Images of the Cross
Vietnamese parish members designed the occasion, echoing circumstances in Vietnam at the time of the Vietnamese martyrs, while following the traditional 'stations' of the Cross as we know them. It was all accompanied by a judicious choice of music which created an atmosphere that led people, regardless of their being Australian, Italian or Vietnamese, to empathise with the sufferings of Jesus ...
A packed church of 500 followed the event intensely - it was all enacted inside the Church. Parish Priest, Fr Anthony Nguyen Huu Quang SDB, was the main celebrant.
The many Australians, Italians and Vietnamese who attended left somewhat red-eyed, moved by the powerful and lifelike presentation of each station.
A multicultural Stations of the Cross
MELBOURNE -- Good Friday Morning, the Vietnamese community at St. Margaret Mary's Parish Brunswick, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, led the traditional Way of the Cross. St. Margaret Mary's Parish has traditionally acted out the "Way of the Cross" largely organised by its Australian and Italian parish membership. This year the Vietnamese community in the parish organised the event, presenting it as it might have been long ago ...
Images of the Cross
Vietnamese parish members designed the occasion, echoing circumstances in Vietnam at the time of the Vietnamese martyrs, while following the traditional 'stations' of the Cross as we know them. It was all accompanied by a judicious choice of music which created an atmosphere that led people, regardless of their being Australian, Italian or Vietnamese, to empathise with the sufferings of Jesus ...
A packed church of 500 followed the event intensely - it was all enacted inside the Church. Parish Priest, Fr Anthony Nguyen Huu Quang SDB, was the main celebrant.
The many Australians, Italians and Vietnamese who attended left somewhat red-eyed, moved by the powerful and lifelike presentation of each station.
