It's a more somber event as it commemorates the day Jesus died on the cross. There is a heaviness ... "When he had received the drink, Jesus said, 'It is finished.' With that, he bowed his head ...

In Jerusalem, they follow the Via Dolorosa, or Way of the Cross. Jesus told his followers, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” ...

"Jesus died on the cross and when he died on the cross, he died for all of us, not for some of us, not for a few chosen few, but all of us," she added. The large, long palm branches were common ...

Christians believe the story of Jesus is the story of an all-powerful ... frightening symbols of violence in history – the Roman cross – into a sign of faithfulness and redemption, we have ...

I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.

“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land,” reads one translation of Matthew 27:45 — a Gospel verse describing the surreal skies as Jesus hung on the cros ...

Based on Charles Dickens’ “The Life of Our Lord,” “The King of Kings” offers a digestible vision of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection that’s especially suitable for children.