Vatican City, Mar 29, 2011 / 09:51 am
Pope Benedict XVI asked a sister of the order of St. Augustine to author the prayers and meditations that will be used for this year's Good Friday way of the cross in Rome.
The Vatican announced March 25 that the president of the international federation of Augustine sisters, Mother Maria Rita Piccione, composed the meditations according to the "traditional" 14 stations.
The “traditional” form employs a mixture of scripture and tradition-based scenes. Another option exists in the “biblical” form of the rite, introduced in 1991 by Pope John Paul II and including only the stations with an explicit foundations in scripture.
Both the traditional and biblical forms describe Jesus' Passion through stages along the path to the cross.