For Judge Della Porta, Good Friday marks end of tradition
by Paula M. Riley
On Good Friday – April 10 – Judge Armand Della Porta, 87, will put on comfortable walking shoes and prepare for what he calls, “the most significant experience in prayer you could ever have.”
He is referring to “The Way of the Cross Walking Stations,” a shared devotional prayer procession which Della Porta has led for 30 years. Believers walk through Chestnut Hill as part of their Good Friday tradition, recalling the suffering that Jesus experienced leading up to his death on the cross.
Della Porta, a senior judge for the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, first participated in the Way of the Cross Walking Stations in the mid-1970s when it was led by Father Ralph Monteiro, a priest assigned to Our Mother of Consolation (OMC) Catholic Parish.
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Judge Armand Della Porta (left) has led Our Mother of Consolation’s Walking Stations of the Cross March for the last 30 years.
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CHBA election slate raises questions
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But on Germantown Avenue, the buzz is about the coming CHCA election and whether or not a group of 10 candidates billed as the Positively Chestnut Hill Team represents a power grab by the Chestnut Hill Business Association or not.
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