Close to 200 local Catholics once again began their Easter weekend on Good Friday, April 18, by watching as Centralia’s St. Mary’s and Chehalis’ St. Joseph’s Catholic parishes perform the Stations of the Cross.
It is the second enactment now held since COVID-19 pandemic, performed by students of St. Mary’s School, which returned last year.
Nearly 30 students from St. Mary’s School dressed up to take part in the performance, which was carried out on the sidewalks of Parkway Street and North Washington Avenue in Centralia.
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Way of the Cross or Via Crucis, commemorate Jesus’s passion and death on the cross. There are 14 stations that each depict a moment on his journey to Calvary, usually through sacred art, prayers, and reflections … Later, for the many who wanted to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a practice developed that eventually took the form of the fourteen stations currently found in almost every church throughout the world.”
