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Living
on the Via
Dolorosa
Recognizing the travails of Jesus with every
step you take
By Hana Bendcowsky
Station 3 of the Via Dolorosa. Photo: www.goisrael.com
S tanding in the bustling bazar in the cross, remind the visitor of Jesus’ message Passing the First and Second Stations,
Muslim Quarter, listening to the children
to his disciples: "If any want to become my the Roman Praetorium and site of the
playing at the Umariya Elementary followers, let them deny themselves and take trial, now divided by a street between the
Boys’ School, it might be hard to up their cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23).
Muslim Umariya Elementary School and the
Franciscan Monastery, you get to the Third
imagine that this is the place where
the Antonia Fortress stood some 2000 years Pilgrims are walking the Way of the Cross, and Fourth Stations.
ago, where Pontius Pilate judged Jesus in stopping at the stations and reading from
the morning on the Friday of the Passover the Gospels. But to some Christians, the Via The new bright orange sign indicates that this
festival. The thousands of pilgrims who are Dolorosa is their home address: they do not is not only the place where Jesus fell for the
today walking in the footsteps of Jesus on the pass the stations, but live at a station of the irst time, and met with his mother, but also the
way to Golgotha, while carrying a big wooden Way of the Cross. home of the Armenian Catholic community in
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on the Via
Dolorosa
Recognizing the travails of Jesus with every
step you take
By Hana Bendcowsky
Station 3 of the Via Dolorosa. Photo: www.goisrael.com
S tanding in the bustling bazar in the cross, remind the visitor of Jesus’ message Passing the First and Second Stations,
Muslim Quarter, listening to the children
to his disciples: "If any want to become my the Roman Praetorium and site of the
playing at the Umariya Elementary followers, let them deny themselves and take trial, now divided by a street between the
Boys’ School, it might be hard to up their cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23).
Muslim Umariya Elementary School and the
Franciscan Monastery, you get to the Third
imagine that this is the place where
the Antonia Fortress stood some 2000 years Pilgrims are walking the Way of the Cross, and Fourth Stations.
ago, where Pontius Pilate judged Jesus in stopping at the stations and reading from
the morning on the Friday of the Passover the Gospels. But to some Christians, the Via The new bright orange sign indicates that this
festival. The thousands of pilgrims who are Dolorosa is their home address: they do not is not only the place where Jesus fell for the
today walking in the footsteps of Jesus on the pass the stations, but live at a station of the irst time, and met with his mother, but also the
way to Golgotha, while carrying a big wooden Way of the Cross. home of the Armenian Catholic community in
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