BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Hundreds of people in Northampton County are gathering to reflect and remember this Good Friday.<\/p>\n
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A Catholic church in Southside Bethlehem is hosting its annual Living Stations of the Cross.<\/p>\n
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“It’s something that moves you,” said Tadeo Giganti Dima.<\/p>\n
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Giganti Dima has spent hours rehearsing.<\/p>\n
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“It’s a very intimate thing to be in the paper of Jesus,” said Giganti Dima.<\/p>\n
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It’s his third year walking the streets of Southside Bethlehem on Good Friday.<\/p>\n
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He’s barefoot and carries a cross.<\/p>\n
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“I’m not doing this for myself, I’m not doing this for my own glory, but I’m doing it for the glory of God,” said Giganti Dima.<\/p>\n
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Right by his side is his brother, David Giganti Dima.<\/p>\n
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“I played the son of Pontius Pilate,” said David.<\/p>\n
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And people near and dear to his heart.<\/p>\n
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“My mom played Mary and my dad played Nicodemus, which was just amazing, because it was now a family thing,” said David. “We’re all dedicating our emotion, our praying for our discomfort.”<\/p>\n
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The family is joined by hundreds of people walking in unison, hoping to spread faith, collective worship and mourn Jesus Christ’s final journey.<\/p>\n
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“It’s emotional because we can feel the pain,” said Joelimar Luna Ortega, a member of Holy Infancy Church.<\/p>\n
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Some people, like Cheyla Delrosario, traveled far to pray the Living Stations of the Cross.<\/p>\n
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“We’re visiting from New Jersey,” said Cheyla Delrosario. “There’s just so much action, so much passion, so much that we take for granted that happened.”<\/p>\n
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The church is hosting several Living Stations of the Cross events throughout the day, followed by services in English, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/p>\n
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Organizers said they are hoping the events bring the community together and help spread the importance of faith and collective worship.<\/p>\n
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Ortega has been praying and walking these streets, every Good Friday, for as long as she can remember.<\/p>\n
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“It reminds us that we’re all together, that we can continue, and that there’s love out in the world,” said Ortega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Hundreds of people in Northampton County are gathering to reflect and remember this Good Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-156717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}