The Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA hold an annual Good Friday Peace Pilgrimage [goerie.com] to pray for change in this world and to bring light to issues that our plaguing our society. This year Bishop Donald Trautman of the Erie Roman Catholic Diocese began the pilgrimage by blessing the pilgrims and informing them that:
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You are making contemporary Stations of the Cross, praying and witnessing in front of places that symbolize injustice
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Almost 100 pilgrims attended the event which Sr. Christine Vladimiroff, Prioress, summed up so beautifully:
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We are responsible. We have created it, and we can change it. We can become a force of grace to transform a world that longs for God.

Unfortunately the years I lived in Erie I was unable to attend to the Pilgrimage and now that I do not live there I long to be there with them. A few notes about the article, Partner's Tavern is a strip club, Emmaus Soup Kitchen is a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters, at the former Hammermill Paper Site a proposed Tire Incinerator Energy Plant is proposed, John Horan Garden Apartments is public housing and has probably one of the worst neighborhoods in the city, Community Health Net is a health clinic and in the photo Sr. Christine is carrying the cross and the man on the right of the picture is Fr. Mike DeMartinis, a priest of the Diocese who is Campus Minister at Cathedral Prep (Diocesan Boys High School).

I wish the Peace Pilgrimage was a practice world wide that we could all participate in.