Lent is a special time of prayer, penance, sacrifice and good deeds in preparation of the celebration of Easter. The Church invites the faithful during the seven weeks of Lenten season to get prepared for the big celebration, while they are called to devote themselves to fasting, prayer and almsgiving. An important space is given to spiritual works, like the Stations of the Cross, Holy Mass, personal prayer, and other good deeds.
The prayer of the Station of Cross is widely prayed in Churches, especially on Fridays, and it culminates for the faithful of Shkodra and its surroundings with the annual Prayer in the Mountain of Tarabosh, part of the celebrations which the Diocese of Shkodra has prepared during the Lenten Season.This year the Station of Cross, organized by the youth group of the Cathedral of Shkodra “Teacher where do you live”, in collaboration with all the catholic youth groups of the Diocese, was held on Saturday, March 15 and children, youth and faithful of all ages from Shkodra and villages surrounding it, accompanied by priests and nuns, climbed the mountain of Tarabosh to recall the Passion of Jesus and pray the 14 stops of the Station of the Cross.
The prayer of the Station of the Cross began at 9.00 am with the greeting of the parish priest Dom Gjovalin Sukaj and was concluded with the final prayer by H.E. Angelo Massaffra, Archbishop of Shkodra.
The Malteser staff and many volunteers participated in the prayer and three Malteser volunteers prayed the 9th station “Jesus falls the third time”.