Missionary Sisters of I C. org

 USA--Good Friday

Sr. Roseli Oliveira
Walking around the streets of the city that “never sleep”, New York, we carried the cross with our sisters and brother who are oppressed, isolated and exclude in our society. One question passed in my mind before going to New York. How can we concentrate and really experience the suffer of Jesus Christ if the Station of the Cross is in the most noisy and busy city where most of the people do not care about religious life? However, I could see how important was to be a religious presence among those people even though they did not enjoy us. It was somehow something that reminded them that it was Good Friday. It also reminded some of them the unconditional love of Jesus for all of us.

We started our procession in front of the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the U.N. and we ended on 42^nd St. between Eighth and Ninth Avenue, near Holy Cross Church. We started our procession in front of the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the U.N. and we ended on 42^nd St. between Eighth and Ninth Avenue, near Holy Cross Church. On each station we remembered Jesus life through the scriptures interconnected with our reality of poverty, exclusion and sufferings.
     
   

We are thankful to Jesus who suffered and died for us, so now let us follow His footprints and give love to this world. Let us being image of Jesus no matter religious or nonreligious, noisy or silent place.