Catholics ready to follow Jesus on walk of pain

MEMBERS of the Catholic Church will be on the road again tomorrow in their Easter Friday Stations of the Cross pilgrimage in Port Moresby.
Catholics do the Stations of the Cross every Easter Friday to immitate Jesus’s torturous walk in Jerusalem to his crucifixion 2000 years ago.
Leading tomorrow’s procession will be youths from Mary Queen of the Pacific, or MQP, Parish in Port Moresby, starting at 3am.
Easter is important to Christians because it marks the death and resurrection of Jesus, said Fidelis Porike, the assistant youth coordinator at MQP Parish, yesterday.
“What God the Father and Jesus the Son did on the cross was not for a group of people or an organisation or a tribe or a denomination,” Porike said. “It was done to save individual lives – you and me.
“We as individuals, regardless of being in the highest office or a farmer in the village or wherever we are, we all have a duty to thank God for what he did for us.”
He said the procession will start at MQP Parish and move towards Somare Foundation through the new backroad from Parliament, all the way to Courts, up to RSPCA at Highlander, then to Vision City, Waigani traffic light, NCC, University of PNG, Port Moresby National High School, Rainbow roundabout to Gerehu Stage Four and Waikele Market at St Paul’s Parish in Gerehu.