Station 1
Jesus in the garden

Station 2
The arrest of Jesus

Station 3
The trial of Jesus before the priests and teachers of the law

Station 4
Condemnation from the High Priest Caiaphas

Station 5
Pilate with Jesus

Station 6
The guards beat Jesus

Station 7
Jesus taken to Golgotha

Station 8
Jesus speaks on the way to the Cross

Station 9
Jesus is crucified

Station 10
It is dark

Station 11
Jesus speaks on the Cross

Station 12
Jesus dies

Station 13
Jesus is entombed

Station 14
The body in the tomb

Acknowledgements

The Story of Trinity's Way of the Cross

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.
(Matthew 27:27-30)

I bleed
From the guards’ blows
And all my isolation

None are here
But those who mete out punishment

Do my pain, the blows, the broken skin
Satisfy anything other than prophecy

My agony fulfills a truth in what they do
Truly they know not

Lord of balm,

Offer us healing
When we are abandoned
     and can only move in pain.
Show us
Through this loneliness of yours
That you know us and relate
And choose to breathe and move
With us.

Amen