Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Crecencio Loera, of West Covina, walks along the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission held the procession. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The wind blows as Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a charismatic ministry at the San Gabriel Mission holds the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) procession around the mission in San Gabriel on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A live Way of the Cross — or Via Crucis — took place outside Mission San Gabriel on Friday, March 29 — Good Friday.
The procession, organized by Brazos Abiertos (Open Arms), a ministry at the mission, started in front of the Mission’s Chapel of the Annunciation, then made its way to the front of the museum/mission church.
The event, devoted to the Stations of the Cross, symbolizes the period of suffering before the death of Jesus Christ, described in the Bible. Christianity commemorates those moments every year during Holy Week, particularly on Good Friday, which commemorates the day of Christ’s death.
