Guwahati Bishop to compose Vatican’s Good Friday Prayers

In rare achievement, the Archbishop of Guwahati, Thomas Menamparampil, has become the first Indian Bishop to have composed the Vatican’s Good Friday prayers. Pope Benedict XVI will use these prayers for the “Way of the Cross” at Vatican on this year’s Good Friday.

Media sources reveal that Archbishop Thomas had incorporated in these prayers the essence of ahimsa teachings of Gandhiji and the ideal of Nishkama karma (selfless action and detachment in service) of the 15th century Vaishnavite saint of Assam, Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva.