This is the path of sorrow that, according to the tradition of the Church, Jesus walked. Located in the Holy City, Jerusalem, the route is marked by images and the numbers of the fourteen stations. The passion that Our Lord lived here is portrayed in images and pictures placed on the walls of Catholic churches around the world. Br CARLOS MOLINA, ofm Director Casa Nova - Nazareth “The oral tradition of Jerusalem reports that it was the Virgin Mary who first visited the places where her son had suffered, and especially the visits of the first Christians to these places. The pilgrim Egeria - or Eterea, depending on how one wishes to pronounce her name - speaks of the Holy Sepulchre and her visit, passing by the place where the Lord had suffered passion and pain. Thus we arrive at a more precise date of how the Via Dolorosa was born". In a Lenten time marked by the onset of the Coronavirus, we can unite the pain of humanity with the pain of Christ. Br CARLOS MOLINA, ofm Director Casa Nova – Nazareth "How to deal with this pain, how to deal with this passion? By accepting what we are living, recognizing our mistake, asking for forgiveness, making prayers of reparation for everything we have done. Conversion and a new beginning, looking at Jesus crucified and risen as a new man.” In his painful journey, Jesus finds help: the Cyrenean who carries the cross with him, Veronica who dries his face, the women of Jerusalem who weep as he passes by and, of course, his mother Mary. Br CARLOS MOLINA, ofm Director Casa Nova – Nazareth "Let us meditate on what we are experiencing, this pandemic of coronavirus that is plaguing the world and all people. We want to meditate today on the Via Dolorosa in the face of this suffering, this pain, in the face of the loss of those we love and this world scourge that is the pandemic." In the twelfth station, we contemplate the death of Jesus; but if Christ ended his sorrowful way on the Calvary, where the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre is located, he resurrected on the third day bringing us real hope. Br CARLOS MOLINA, ofm Director Casa Nova – Nazareth "Jesus' resurrection invites us, before this pain, to live, to live, to live: that is, to love God, to do charity, to live to forgive and to give ourselves, to love and to love ourselves and to give our lives in the service of man".