On Friday April 3rd at 8:45 am, there will be a special short service in the cathedral of the Stations of the Cross. This is one of our usual Morning Prayer time slots, modified for the occasion of the first Friday in Passiontide, a week before Good Friday.

The Stations of the Cross comprise a devotional practice, which invites Christians to follow in the footsteps of Jesus on the day of his crucifixion – either physically, along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, or, as in our case, imaginatively.

In 2006, then-Dean Logan McMenamie commissioned seven artists with ties to the cathedral to paint two each of the fourteen traditional stations; those art works now hang on the walls of our north and south ambulatories.

This year’s observance will focus on the seven stations which are directly referenced in scripture. We will pause before each one for a reading, a prayer and a time of meditation. The whole sequence will last approximately half an hour. Please plan to join us for this contemplative prelude to the solemnities of Holy Week.