in the heart of the city where people carry their daily cross
We are grateful to the Most Reverend James R. Golka, Archbishop of Denver, for joining us, and to all who participated in the Good Friday Way of the Cross in 2026.
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Friday, Mar 26, 2027
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From Denver Catholic:
‘The True Cross of Every Day’: Archbishop Golka Walks Good Friday Way of the Cross Through Downtown Denver
Way of the Cross
Each year, we follow the passion of Christ in the heart of our city, where thousands of people carry their daily cross, often alone, thinking, “If God exists, He has nothing to do with my daily life.” We need the presence of “God with us,” Jesus. And Jesus, because of the sacrifice of His cross and because of His resurrection, dwells among us every day. Through choral music, Gospel passages, reflections, and our silent procession, we hope to enter more deeply into the events of Good Friday and their meaning for us today.
→ 2026 BOOKLET PDF
SCHEDULE
BEGINNING: 11:30 am
At the monument on Capitol grounds between Broadway & Lincoln
CONCLUSION: 1:30 pm
Near the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, 1530 N. Logan St, Denver, CO 80203
STATIONS
Monument on Capitol grounds (gather)
Civic Center Park
15th Avenue & Court Plaza
Civic Center Plaza
17th Avenue & Sherman Street
Cathedral Basilica
Way of the Cross is open to everyone.
No registration required.
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From Denver Catholic:
‘The True Cross of Every Day’: Archbishop Golka Walks Good Friday Way of the Cross Through Downtown Denver (2026)
The Denver City and County building bells tolled each quarter hour. Sirens came and went. Drivers laid on their horns.
The sights and sounds of the city were as they are on any weekday. Jerusalem two thousand years ago would have been described with different particulars, but with a very similar reality of marked hopelessness.
Even still, on this Good Friday in Denver, the sight of a crowd following a man carrying a large wooden cross was certainly out of the ordinary. Numbering more than 150, these families and single lay people, with priests and nuns in their midst, were also notable for their silence.
Just a week after his installation, Denver’s new Archbishop James Golka joined the group for the Way of the Cross, walking alongside them not as a leader per se but as one experiencing it. In the shadow of the state Capitol, his brief remarks at the walk’s outset encouraged all participating to see this event as Servant of God Luigi Giussani did when the movement began their version of The Way of the Cross.
“What we are here to do is not first and foremost to follow a pattern of thought, but rather to enter into an event,” Giussani said at the time. “It is a form of memory, and like every form of memory, it gains all its importance from the seriousness with which the heart fixes its attention on the content of that memory itself.”
From Denver Catholic:
A Snowy Via Crucis: 100 Gather for
Downtown Way of the Cross on Good Friday (2025)
The annual event became a visible and moving sign of the same love the faithful receive by contemplating Christ’s Passion. The Way of the Cross was a physical reminder of the spiritual reality of Jesus’ enduring presence with his people.
“Christ, the light of our life, helps us in our journey,” Servant of God Luigi Giussani, the founder of Communion & Liberation, once said. “We are rebellious, but we cannot nullify the strength of his love for us, with which he pursues us. Let us implore his help. He says, ‘Here I am!’ His presence is our joy. His joy is our strength. It is the joy of a love that at the end will win.”
