Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op Charles Ja­son Gor­don is call­ing on the pub­lic to recog­nise the chal­lenges faced by them­selves and oth­ers as they strive to fol­low the ex­am­ple of Je­sus Christ.

Gor­don made the re­marks fol­low­ing the Good Fri­day Sta­tions of the Cross pro­ces­sion up Cal­vary Hill in east Port-of-Spain, which was at­tend­ed by near­ly 80 parish­ioners.

Re­flect­ing on Christ’s self­less na­ture, Gor­don not­ed that while some are in­spired to acts of com­pas­sion and gen­eros­i­ty, oth­ers re­spond with scep­ti­cism or even scorn. He drew a par­al­lel to the ridicule Christ faced dur­ing his cru­ci­fix­ion, em­pha­siz­ing the en­dur­ing rel­e­vance of the mes­sage of sac­ri­fice amid ad­ver­si­ty.