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Introduction
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
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Story of Trinity's Way of the Cross |
The body in the tomb
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
were sitting there opposite the tomb.
(Matthew 27:61)
By oppression and
judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the
transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a
grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he
had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
(Isaiah 53:8-9)
Three trees
are left to crown the hill
Three empty trees now become refuse, too
The will is
worked
While those who mortally remain
Hide, weep
Await
Was it for this
That weeping will fill Ramah
That Elijah’s voice has spoken again
That prophecies themselves will pierce
the darkness, rent the Temple
split the earth
In fulfillment, altering all
Pray well, all, for what comes next
God of wisest
innocence,
When the world is
overturned,
Love will be strong
Grace will be power–
Kindness unassailable
And mercy unimpeachable.
While we wait
For the time of your rising
When love will flood o’er all
Carrying us to new creation
While we fear
The loss of you
When you have moved
And you seem gone:
Touch us, still,
To teach us, to guide us
To reach toward you
Grasping and clasping
Each other on the way.
Amen |
