Via Crusis in Cebu
As a Lenten season is fast approaching, Via Crusis is one way to repent ourselves. It is a Lenten movement happens every April 1 where devotees from Cebu City and its neighboring cities and towns do their penitential procession through cities the Station of the Cross built on 12 hectares of rolling hills. Via Crusis is a Latin for The Way of the Cross, or sometimes called The Way of Sorrows refers to the portrayal of the passion of the Christ and the devotion commemorating it. The life-size statues of the 14 Stations of the Cross have been patterned after the Way of the Cross in Lourdes, France.
The Stations or Way of the Cross is an ancient method of meditating upon Christ’s Suffering and Death. Trace the path of Jesus from His condemnation to His body being laid in a tomb. Bring your senses, and most of all your heart, and walk the Way of the Cross. Take time to read, reflect, pray, and sing. Reflect on what Jesus’ journey to the cross means for you, for all.
People of Catholic faith from all walks of life, from all over the Philipines, come to this annual event for different reasons, but commonly for the atonement of their sins.
Via Crusis aims to help devout individuals to recall the suffering of Jesus Christ to which he was crucified to redeem the sins of every Christian who believes in Him, offer spiritual pilgrimage of prayers, through the scenes where the Christ underwent suffering and death.
Everyone are invited to the Stations of the Cross to meditate on the Passion of Christ, stopping to meditate, to actually slow down and think about his movements from being condemned to being laid in the tomb. We are tasked with traveling the Via Dolorosa, to walk with Jesus the road to Golgotha, the way of the cross.
This act of devotion became one of the most popular events for Roman Catholics, and other Christian religions believe in the same faith. During the season of this observance, devotees with vows to the Lord come along in the Way of the Cross, in bare backs inflicting pain through variety of whips as an act of atonement for their sins.
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