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教皇利奥十四世在其就任教皇后的首个圣周五，在罗马斗兽场背负木制十字架走完了苦路的全部14站，这是数十年来首次有教皇走完所有站点的游行。
“我认为这将是一个重要的象征，因为教皇所代表的是当今世界的精神领袖，而这一人们都愿意聆听的声音，传递着基督仍在受难的讯息，”利奥本周在冈多菲堡教皇 retreat 外对记者说道。“我在祈祷中承载了所有这些苦难。”
在斗兽场内，利奥举起十字架开启仪式，两名持火炬者全程陪同他完成了这场长达一小时的游行：从斗兽场内出发，穿过场外人群，登上陡峭台阶抵达帕拉蒂尼山，并在那里进行了最后的祝福。
在纪念耶稣被判处死刑的第一站，专为利奥首个圣周五准备的默想文强调，掌权者必须为其行使权力的方式向上帝 accountable。
“审判的权力；发动或结束战争的权力；灌输暴力或和平的权力；助长复仇欲或和解欲的权力，”由2016年至2025年担任圣地守护者的弗朗切斯科·帕顿神父撰写的默想文写道，其职责包括照管圣地等事务。
约3万名信众聚集在这座异教古迹外，通过扬声器播报的内容跟随各站仪式行进。
他们当中包括来自萨摩亚的佩莱纳蒂塔·基奥马·菲瑙修女，她是圣母圣心传教修女会的成员。
“我们曾参与过本教区的苦路游行，但这次的经历令人无比激动。能在这个特殊场合与罗马民众共度，意义非凡，”她说道。
据当时美联社的报道，若望·保禄二世自1979年就任教皇后的首个圣周五起，全程背负十字架完成游行，直至1995年接受髋关节手术，此后他仅能背负部分路程。
本笃十六世在其教皇任期的头两年，仅在斗兽场内完成第一站的十字架背负，之后便跟随其他抬十字架者参加游行，游行终点设在帕拉蒂尼山的一处平台上。
教皇方济各从未背负过十字架，但直到健康状况恶化前都一直参与游行。他于去年因长期患病去世，去世当日恰逢4月21日的复活节周一。
若望·保禄二世当选教皇时年仅58岁，以徒步旅行者和户外运动爱好者的身份为人熟知。他的两位继任者在就任教皇时均已年近八旬，而方济各年轻时因肺部感染切除了部分肺叶。
苦路仪式纪念耶稣生命的最后几个小时，从他被判处死刑、背负十字架直至被钉十字架、死亡与安葬。游行在斗兽场外的帕拉蒂尼山山顶结束。
“苦路并非为那些过着纯粹虔诚或抽象冥想生活的人准备的，”帕顿在引言中写道。“相反，它是为那些深知信仰、希望与博爱必须在现实世界中体现的人准备的修行。”
现年70岁的利奥身体康健，热衷网球和游泳。据他的前健身教练透露，在当选教皇之前，利奥会定期在梵蒂冈附近的健身房锻炼，锻炼计划符合50多岁男性的标准。
在圣周六，教皇将主持一场深夜复活节守夜礼，期间他将为新入教者施洗，并带领罗马天主教徒迎来基督教纪念基督复活的最欢乐庆典。
在复活节周日，教皇将在圣彼得广场主持露天弥撒，随后发表复活节致辞，并为罗马城和全世界献上传统的“致城与致世界”祝福。
Pope Leo carries cross for all 14 stations during Good Friday procession, first pontiff to do so in decades
2026-04-03T18:19:00-0400 / CBS News
Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carried the cross to every station.
“I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader in the world today, and for this voice, that everyone wants to hear, that says Christ still suffers,” Leo told reporters this week outside of the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo. “I carry all of this suffering in my prayer.”
Inside the Colosseum, Leo lifted the cross and began the rite flanked by two torchbearers, who accompanied him throughout the hourlong procession from inside the Colosseum, through the crowd outside and up steep stairs to the Palantine Hill where he gave the final blessing.
Pope Leo XIV carries a lightweight, 5-foot wooden cross during the Via Crucis, the torchlit Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome. Gregorio Borgia / AP
At the first station, marking the moment Jesus was condemned to death, the meditation prepared especially for Leo’s first Good Friday underlined that those with authority will have to answer to God for how they exercise their power.
“The power to judge; the power to start or end a war; the power to instill violence or peace; the power to fuel the desire for revenge, or for reconciliation,” read the meditation written by Rev. Francesco Patton, who was custodian of the Holy Land 2016-25, charged, among other things, with looking after sacred sites.
Some 30,000 faithful gathered outside the pagan monument, following the stations as they were recited over loudspeakers.
Faithful gather to watch Pope Leo XIV during the torchlit Good Friday procession in Rome. Alessandra Tarantino / AP
They included Sister Pelenatita Kieoma Finau from Samoa and a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary.
“We have been part of our parish stations of the cross, but this is so exciting. It is very meaningful to have the experience of being with the people of Rome on this special occasion,” she said.
John Paul II carried the cross for the entire procession from his first Good Friday as pontiff in 1979 until his hip surgery in 1995, when he carried it just part of the way, according to AP reports at the time.
For the first two years of his papacy, Benedict XVI carried the cross for the first station inside the Colosseum, then followed other bearers in the procession that ends on a platform on the Palatine Hill.
Pope Francis never carried the cross, but participated in the procession until his health worsened. He died after a long illness last year on Easter Monday, which fell on April 21.
Pope John Paul II was just 58 when he became pope, and was known as a hiker and an outdoorsman. His two successors were in their late 70s when they began their papacies, and Francis was missing part of a lung due to a pulmonary infection as a young man.
The Way of the Cross commemorates the final hours of Jesus’ life, from his death sentence to taking up the cross to his crucifixion, death and burial. The procession ends outside the Colosseum atop the Palatine Hill.
Pope Leo XIV carries a lightweight, 1.5-meter (5-foot) wooden cross during the Via Crucis, the torchlit Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome. Alessandra Tarantino / AP
“The Way of the Cross is not intended for those who lead a pristinely pious or abstractly recollected life,” Patton wrote in his introduction. “Instead, it is the exercise of one who knows that faith, hope and charity must be incarnated in the real world.”
At 70, Leo is physically fit and an avid tennis player and swimmer. Before becoming pope, Leo would work out regularly at a gym near the Vatican, with a plan befitting a man in his early 50s, according to his former trainer.
On Holy Saturday, the pontiff will preside over a late-night Easter vigil, during which he will baptize new Catholics, and lead Roman Catholics into Christianity’s most joyous celebration marking Christ’s resurrection.
On Easter Sunday, the pope will celebrate an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square before delivering his Easter message and offer the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” blessing to the city of Rome and the world.