Ukraine: Cardinal Krajewski prays at mass grave on Good Friday

Cardinal last month in Lviv

Source: Vatican News

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner, spent Good Friday in Kyiv, and also visited the town of Borodyanka nearby where he prayed at a mass grave, expressing his pain at the sight of so many dead and such extensive destruction.

The Cardinal came during Holy Week, to express the closeness of Pope Francis with the people. He arrived in an ambulance donated by the Pope to a cardiology hospital in Kyiv. On Holy Thursday, Cardinal Krajewski celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper.

On Good Friday, he joined the Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, in leading the Way of the Cross in Borodyanka, an area northwest of Kyiv devastated by Russian troops..

In an interview with Vatican News Cardinal Krajewski described finding "so many dead, as well as a mass grave of at least 80 people buried without a name or surname."

Faced with such horrors, he said: "tears fail to fall and words do not come." Yet, thank God, there is faith."

"We are in Holy Week. Today is Good Friday, when we can unite ourselves to the person of Jesus and go up with Him to the Cross," he said.

Cardinal Krajewski recalled that Easter Sunday and the Resurrection of Christ will come soon, saying: "Perhaps He will explain everything in His love and change everything, even within us, especially this bitterness and suffering which we bear each day, but particularly on a day like today."