Holy Week 2013

Sandra Delalus is baptized by Father William Tkachuk, pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Evanston, during the Easter Vigil on March 30. Sandra's sister and nephew were also baptized along with four others, bringing the total number of people baptized to seven. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Isabella Matarelli, 7, watches, alongside her father, Marc Matarelli, left, as church candles are lit during the Easter Vigil. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

Juanita Delalus is baptized by Father William Tkachuk. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Candles light the beginning of the Easter Vigil service. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Six-week old Domingo Nicolaz-Davidson is baptized by Father William Tkachuk. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

The congregation of St. Nicholas Parish, in Evanston, gathers outside the church to watch the blessing of the fire and lighting of the paschal candle to start the Easter Vigil. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Father William Tkachuk, pastor at St. Nicholas Parish, in Evanston, lights a small candle after blessing the fire at the start of the Easter Vigil. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

From left, Courtney Conlee, April Miller and Nancy Marcheschi participate as church candles are lit during the Easter Vigil at St. Nicholas Parish in Evanston, on March 30. Courtney and April became godmothers to 7-year old Isabella Matarelli, who was later baptized during the service and Nancy sponsored her sister-in-law Christine Seitz who was also baptized during the service. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Father William Tkachuk, pastor at St. Nicholas Parish, in Evanston, rejoices with the congregation during the Easter Vigil, on March 30. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Juanita Delalus wipes her face after she is baptized. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Sandra Delalus is baptized by Father William Tkachuk. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

The congregation of St. Nicholas Parish, in Evanston, hold candles at the start of the Easter Vigil. (Natalie Battaglia / Catholic New World)

Efran Lechuga, portraying Jesus, follows Father Mark J. Krylowicz, pastor, during a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross), with parishioners in the neighborhood surrounding Saint Anthony of Padua Parish , 11533 S. Prarie Ave., on Good Friday March 29. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

Manuel Lechuga (Simon) and Efran Lechuga, (Jesus) follow the procession. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

(Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

Several houses, owned by parishioners, were marked as stations with a white cross and red ribbon where participants stopped to pray along the route.(Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

(Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

(Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

Communion and Liberation, a lay ecclesial movement, together with other Catholic lay movements in the Archdiocese of Chicago, held its 9th Annual Way of the Cross through downtown Chicago streets on Good Friday. Cardinal George offered a brief reflection at the beginning of the procession that began in Daley Plaza. Participants stopped at the Chagall Mosaic, Millennium Park, Tribune Tower Plaza and Water Tower Plaza before ending at Holy Name Cathedral in time for the 12:10 p.m. Mass. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)

Father Carmelo Mendez was the main celebrant at the Mass remembering the Lord's Last Supper on Holy Thursday at St. Eulalia Parish in Maywood, on March 28. (Karen Callaway / Catholic New World)