The Daughters of St Paul on March 22 concluded their 36-day program of spreading the message of Lent through Mother Mary’s perspective. “During lent we wanted to communicate the love of Jesus. Nothing else can demonstrate God’s love more powerfully than the cross where Jesus revealed the love of God. So, we decided to enact the Way of the Cross as the best way to convey this message,” said Sister Matilda Rose, who initiated the program.
The nuns, based in Mum-bai’s Bandra, the congregation’s Indian headquarters, formed a team and Sister Anna Kipuna-mai prepared the text of the “With Mary on the Way of the Cross.” Starting at St John the Baptist Church in Mumbai’s Marol, on February 16, the first Friday of Lent, the congregation staged the Way of the Cross in 12 parishes in Bombay archdiocese and the dioceses of Vasai and Nasik. It ended on the 40th day of the Lent, at Gonsalo Garcia parish in the diocese of Vasai.