Lent and Holy Week in Indonesia
In this The Lenten/Holy Week time I have experienced a real sense of the Indonesian Church (specifically in Timor Island where I am in mission). Certainly, they share similar traditions with our universal Church, like Stations of the Cross on Fridays, fasting, and abstaining from meat, but in this time, I experienced moments unlike anywhere else I have been. For example, on the Friday before Good Friday, they celebrate the “thematic stations of the cross.” In it, they do a variation of the stations where t