Join us on Good Friday, April 15, at 12 p.m. Eastern Time, for the 2022 Virtual Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross

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Along with our co-sponsoring organizations, we invite you to join our live virtual presentation of the Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross.

WHAT: Live presentation of Virtual Economic and Ecological Way of the Cross

WHEN: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Friday, April 15

WHERE: Click here to register via Zoom. 

Watch it LIVE or Watch the Recording on YouTube.

If you are unable to join us at that time, you will be able to download the script and the PowerPoint for the presentation, which you can use to pray on your own or with your community. 

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Susan Gunn, sgunn@maryknollogc.org.

 

Co-sponsoring organizations: Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the St. Columban Mission for Justice, Peace and Ecology, Pax Christi USA, Pax Christi International, Catholic Labor Network, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Justice Team, Stuart Center, National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Franciscan Action Network, Little Friends for Peace, The Quixote Center. 

All are welcome.

Based on the Economic Way of the Cross, written by the Religious Working Group on the World Bank/IMF, the Way of the Cross for Economic and Ecological Justice provides a prayerful way to walk the steps of Jesus in this time of financial and ecological crisis. This year, it will be a virtual event.

Each station symbolizes institutional roots of this suffering in government, in transnational corporations, in international financial institutions, in trade agreements, macroeconomic policies, and financial transactions that give shape to economic activity around the world.

Following is the list of stations and the current issues they symbolize. 

  1. FIRST STATION: JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH 
    Political privilege and corruption
  2. SECOND STATION: JESUS BEARS THE CROSS
    Structural racism, violence, and voting rights
  3. THIRD STATION: JESUS FALLS FOR THE FIRST TIME
    Labor injustices
  4. FOURTH STATION: JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER
    The need for community-led development
  5. FIFTH STATION: JESUS IS HELPED BY SIMON
    Indigenous peoples and the environment
  6. SIXTH STATION: VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS
    Solidarity and peace
  7. SEVENTH STATION: JESUS FALLS A SECOND TIME
    Wasteful military spending
  8. EIGHTH STATION: JESUS SPEAKS TO THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM
    Justice for immigrants and citizenship for all
  9. NINTH STATION: JESUS FALLS FOR THE THIRD TIME Justice for immigrants
    Moving forward on climate change
  10. TENTH STATION: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS CLOTHES
    Affordable housing
  11. ELEVENTH STATION: JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS
    Vaccine equity
  12. TWELFTH STATION: JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS
    The need for debt relief for impoverished nations 
  13. THIRTEENTH STATION: JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS
    Militarism and nonviolence
  14. FOURTEENTH STATION: JESUS IS PLACED IN THE TOMB
    Justice for asylum seekers
  15. FIFTEENTH STATION: THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
    Signs and seeds of hope / Another world is possible
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