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From the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, prisoners have emerged in Pope Francis\u2019s daily prayers and Mass intentions. On Good Friday, with many around the world confined to their homes, prisoners will offer a glimpse into their own permanent quarantine during the Vatican\u2019s Via Crucis<\/em>\u00a0prayer.<\/p>\n

Each year Pope Francis tasks a different person or group with writing meditations\u00a0 for his Way of the Cross prayer on Good Friday, the day on which Christians commemorate Jesus\u2019s crucifixion and death.<\/p>\n

This year, the meditations were organized by the chaplaincy of the \u201cDue Palazzi\u201d House of Detention in Padua, Italy. Authors include prisoners, family members of prisoners, a catechist, a civil magistrate, volunteers and a priest who was falsely accused of an unspecified crime and later acquitted. The Vatican\u00a0published the full text of the meditations earlier in the week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an April 10 letter thanking the prisoners for their meditations, Pope Francis said he \u201ctook residence in the folds of your words and I felt welcomed at home. Thanks for sharing a piece of your story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written in the first-person, each offers a personal story recounting resentment, anger, guilt, despair and regret, as well as hope, faith and mercy.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on Jesus\u2019s condemnation to death, one prisoner condemned alongside his father to a life sentence said that to date, \u201cThe harshest condemnation remains that of my own conscience: at night I open my eyes and I desperately search for a light that will shine upon my story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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