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Day 4 Live Coverage via Webcast (Updated by the minute) - WYD Stations of the Cross with Pope Benedict XVI

By bluepanjeet on Jul 18, 2008 in World Youth Day

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WYD STATIONS OF THE CROSS WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI (4 HOURS)
XXIII WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008
Various Sites all over Sydney
July 18, 2008 12:30PM Manila Time
(12:30 AM EST / 9:30 PM PCT / 2:30 PM AEST)

SYDNEY today will become a giant outdoor theatre space for World Youth Day (WYD) as actors recreate the biblical account of Jesus Christ’s final days. The Stations of the Cross event - described as a devotional and “prayerful re-enactment” for Catholics - has 13 acts in total and will be played out at sites across the inner city. Tens of thousands of pilgrims will amass at seven sites, from the Domain to the Opera House and Darling Harbour, to watch a series of Stations either live or on large TV screens. “Sydney will host the spectacular launch of Stations of the Cross where the final hours of Jesus’ life are played out through CBD streets, beginning at St Mary’s Cathedral and concluding at the northern end of Barangaroo,” a WYD statement says.

Pope Benedict XVI will attend the first station - The Last Supper - at an invitation-only event at St Mary’s Cathedral, from 3pm (AEST). The event will end at Barangaroo at 6pm. Before the Stations of the Cross event gets underway, the 81-year-old pontiff will meet with other Christian leaders at St Mary’s Cathedral from 10.30am (AEST), then leaders from other faiths. The Pope will then lunch with 12 WYD pilgrims hand-picked to represent the different nations attending the six-day WYD event. Sydney commuters are again urged to avoid bringing vehicles into the city, where road closures remain in place.

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BLOG COVERAGE UPDATED BY THE MINUTE (All times based on Manila timezone [+8:00]. Sydney is 2 hours ahead of Manila)

  • 1:00 PM - Station of the Cross starts at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Actors began depicting the Station I which is the last supper. Pope Benedict descended from sliding big screen at the Cathedral’s door and gave the paryer for the first station.
  • 1:15 PM - WYD Cross started its procession towards the 2nd Station. The Cross carried by WYD Pilgrims preceeds the actors playing Jesus and the twelve apostles. The procession took the streets as traffic and roads were closed and people waiting in the 2nd station at the Sydney Hospital. The whole station of the Cross is being prayed on the whole sydney. The Streets are virtually ghost town while People gathered in the stations set by the WYD organizers. Pope Benedict is at the crypt of St. Mary’s Cathedral watching the evnt in the Wide Screen.
  • 1:34 PM - THE DOMAIN SYDNEY - 2nd station of the Cross. The WYD Cross and actors arrived at the Sydney Botanical Garden coming froim St. Mary’s Cathedral by foot. Narration of the gospel now is being said. The Atmosphere is Generally solemn and silent. No shouting, cheers or applause. Everyone is praying.
  • 1:43 PM - Anna Derick led the reflection
  • 1:45 PM - THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES - 3rd station, Jesus was taken before the Sanhedrin. Narration is being told. FANTASTIC, THE WHOLE SYDNEY HAS LITERALLY BECAME JERUSALEM AS THE STATION OF THE CROSS move from places to places all over Sydney.
  • 1:55 PM - Dance sequence (interpretative dance) begins entitled Judas’ Kiss, as the Cross and actor walks through the streets of sydney towards the next venue
  • 2:06 PM - SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE FORECOURT - 4th station begins (Jesus is taken to Pilate).
  • 2:08 PM - WYD Cross now arriving at the sydney opera house. Pilate stands atop the Opera stairs as if the whole Opera House is a Roman Patio.
  • 2:13 PM - 5rd Station: Jesus is whipped and crowned with thorns
  • 2:20 PM - 6th Station begins - Jesus takes up his cross.
  • 2:26 PM - The actor is now walking with the Cross on the fore shores of Sydney Harbor towards the next station venue. Thousands of People praying and are lined up on the streets.
  • 2:28 PM - The actors aboard on a barge, heads toward Cockle bay across the sydney harbor for the 7th Station of the Cross. Ukranian Choir chants as the play is trasported accross the waters
  • 2:39 PM - COCKLE BAY DARLING HARBOUR - 7th Station begins (Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus). Aboriginal dance starts. Jesus (actor) reached the Cockle Bay. Play begins.
  • 2:50 PM - Procession now approaches Barangaroo where thousands of Pilgrims awaits for the depiction of the 8th-13th stations. The actor playing Jesus literally walked all over sydney even across the Harbor aboard a barge.
  • 2:58 PM - BARANGAROO CENTER STAGE - 8th Station begins (Jesus speaks with the woman of Jerusalem).
  • 3:14 PM - BARANGAROO NORTH - 9th Station begins (Jesus is stripped and nailed at the cross). Two actors who plays the two thieves are already nailed on the cross when the procession arrived. Very solemn atmosphere. Thousands of people young and old are moved by the play. Spectacular, the stage is revolving and the cross is lifted automatically into the air by machine.
  • 3:21 PM - 10th Station Begins (Jesus and the good thief). Amazing Grace is sung.
  • 3:29 PM - 11th Station begins (Jesus speaks to Mary and John).
  • 3:32 PM - 12th Station begins (Jesus dies on the Cross).
  • 3:37 PM - 13th station begins (Jesus is taken down from the Cross). The actor’s body is carried on bare shoulders of the other actors without any splints or stretchers. Procession of Jesus’ body begins. The body is being taken to a barge to cross the harbour once again, symbolizing death. This is really fantastic my friends. Great performers and a never before seen kind of Station of the Cross.






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