11:00 am – 1:00 pm
“Way of the Cross,”
This year’s Good Friday prayer space will be open from 11 am to 1 pm. You are invited to enter into some moments of quiet contemplation in the sanctuary, meditating on the way of the cross, and lighting candles.
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- Scripture Meditation
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- Illumination on the Way
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- Communion
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- Way of the Cross Detail
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- Walking the Path
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- Coming to the Cross
Way of the Cross
History
“The Way of the Cross” contemplation originated with pilgrims and crusaders to Jerusalem following the steps of Jesus to Golgatha. For centuries Christians have remembered Jesus’ final days in pictures placed along a path or as a printed sheet.
Images
Stations
- Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane
- Jesus is betrayed by Judas and arrested
- Jesus is condemned by the Sanhedrin
- Jesus is thrice denied by Peter
- Jesus is judged by Pilate
- Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns
- Jesus takes up his cross
- Jesus is helped by Simon of Cyrene to carry his cross
- Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
- Jesus is crucified
- Jesus promises his kingdom to the dying criminal
- Jesus entrusts Mary and the beloved disciple to each other
- Jesus dies on the cross
- Jesus is laid in the tomb
Meditation
Scripture
Questions
- What passage in this scripture most resonates or offends you? Why?
- How did you walk through an awful situation? Did this experience change your understanding of, or connection with, God?
- When have your shown courageous love by going the distance for someone?
- What does the cross mean to you, personally?
Prayer
Jesus, help us be awake with you in Gethsemane.
Help us stay awake and unafraid
as we walk a path through suffering.Help us resist the impulse to pin you down,
to fit you inside a story and inside a book that can be shut.
Help us resist the impulse to pin ourselves down,
to fit ourselves inside a story too small for our souls.
The truth is too big for a book– it’s loose in the world.Christ, help us be awake with you in the world.
Help us stay awake and unafraid
as we walk a path through suffering.
Amen.
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