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By Paul Chasko

Folks who participated in this season’s Journey to Jerusalem at St. Francis of Assisi experienced a different view of this reenactment of the stories of Holy Week.

James of Zebedee (Ed Garry) and Peter (Larry Spahr)

They encountered these events as players depicting characters whose accounts are based on Biblical records.

Parishioners of St. Francis played the roles of saints and sinners and “imagineered” what might have happened during the first Holy Week. Their accounts were based on the Gospels found in Biblical records, but they were free to add their own interpretation of how they believed apostles and disciples, who were ordinary people of the period, might have reacted to the events of the first Holy Week and how they experienced knowing the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

The St. Francis depiction of the Journey to Jerusalem is presented every other year and gets better with each performance. It’s presented in the parish’s Finley Hall. Costumes and settings are becoming better and the seriousness with which the players take in their presentations is evident.

Praise goes out to all who were involved in this year’s successful production. The list of participants is long, but special thanks go to Joanne and Pat Mansmann, who were director and assistant director for this year’s production.

Go to our photo gallery for more photos of this event by Paul Chasko.

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