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Coverage of the Jersey City Stations of the Cross at sites of violence

Darla Miles of Eyewitness News, WABC-TV interviews Bishop Beckwith
April 03, 2015
By: 
Nina Nicholson, Director of Communications

On Good Friday, April 3, 2015, well over 100 people from more than a than a dozen congregations, including Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Protestants and Roman Catholics performed the Stations of the Cross by visiting 14 sites of violent incidents in Jersey City over the last year.

Coverage includes:

The Stations of the Cross, which commemorate 14 scenes from the day Jesus was crucified, begin with his condemnation and conclude with his body being laid in the tomb. The 14 stations, selected in consultation with the Jersey City Police Department, are listed in this Jersey Journal article, Unique rendition of Stations of the Cross travels to sites of Jersey City violence today.

The gallery below contains 44 photos by Nina Nicholson. The captions give more detailed information about the liturgy.

Nails
At the first station, Bishop Beckwith remembered Officer Melvin Santiago, 23
Laying on of hands
A nail is hammered into the cross at the first station.
The second station.
The third station.
Before leaving each station, a clergy person asperged the ground with water
A woman in a second floor window weeps as she watches the worshipers
A participant wore a sweatshirt commemorating the late Detective Santiago.
A participant carries the cross.
One station was next to a mural depicting Nelson Mandela.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
The assembly walks between stations.
A participant carries the cross.
The assembly walks between stations.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
Sidney King holds the cross.
Participants in the Stations of the Cross.
The ground defiled by violence is asperged.
A woman and child left flowers at each of the stations.
The procession passes a playground.
At station where 5-year-old was shot, a child hammers a nail into the cross.
At station where 5-year-old was shot, a child quote by Anne Frank.
Bishop Beckwith at the ninth station.
Participants in the Stations of the Cross.
The Freedom Tower is seen in the distance.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
The ground defiled by violence is asperged.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
The ground defiled by violence is asperged.
Two children in the procession.
Darla Miles of Eyewitness News, WABC-TV, covered the Stations of the Cross.
On Bergen Avenue, an Islamic school and a Greek Orthodox Church are neighbors.
A nail is hammered into the cross.
At the 14th station, Bishop Beckwith prays for the perpetrators of violence.
Participants at the fourteenth and final station.
Participants at the fourteenth and final station.
Canon Gregory Jacobs says a healing prayer for Carol Harrison-Arnold
A child holds a rose and a nail at the fourteenth and final station.
Bishop Beckwith at the fourteenth and final station.
Darla Miles of Eyewitness News, WABC-TV interviews Bishop Beckwith
Officer Viola and Captain Michael Kelly of the JCPD talk with Bishop Beckwith
Bishop Beckwith shows reporters a replica of Detective Melvin Santiago's badge