Every Friday until Easter, the Rev. Francis de Rosa, a Roman Catholic priest who oversees two parishes in the Arlington Diocese will pray and eat soup and bread with parishioners at the church in Colonia Beach, on Virginia's Northern Neck.
Like Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians and some Protestants, Father de Rosa will omit those items from his diet that one day a week. The communal meal of soup will follow a vigil known as the “Stations of the Cross,” prayers marking 14 points where Jesus did something of significance en route to his crucifixion.
He said, “We have a discipline of giving up meat on Fridays. It’s not a statement about the intrinsic value of meat, and we eat meat all the time. It’s just it’s a sacrifice: Christ’s sacrificed his flesh for us, so we sacrifice flesh.” Making ways for parishioners to connect is important after three years of pandemic-related restrictions. Father de Rosa said 2022 wasn’t as difficult in his parishes, which are not in big cities, and that fears of COVID-19 “didn’t grip the people here the way it did in other places.”
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