Via Lucis: Stations of the Resurrection Coloring Pages [Download]

The Via Lucis (Latin for “Way of Light”), or the Stations of the Resurrection, is a Catholic devotion for the Easter Season. While Catholics meditate on Christ’s Passion and Death during Lent through the Stations of the Cross, the Stations of the Resurrection offer a meditation on the events from Easter Sunday through the entire Easter Season ending on Pentecost.

The Congregation for Divine Worship tells us that, “Using the metaphor of a journey, the Via Lucis moves from the experience of suffering, which in God’s plan is part of life, to the hope of arriving at man’s true end: liberation, joy and peace which are essentially paschal values. The Via Lucis is a potential stimulus for the restoration of a ‘culture of life’ which is open to the hope and certitude offered by faith, in a society often characterized by a culture of death, despair and nihilism.”
(Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments 2001).

You can pray the Stations of the Resurrection anytime during the Easter Season. Some families like to pray them on Fridays (mimicking the practice of praying the Stations of the Cross during Lent) while others like to pray them on Sunday afternoons or evenings.