About Stations of The Cross
The stations of the cross is a very well-established and popular way for Christians to reflect on the passion of Jesus and its meaning. The stations focus, like the zooming in of a video camera, on the actual reality of the events on that way of the cross walked by Jesus, from Jerusalem to Calvary.
The Stations ground us and our faith in the human facts of the passion – helping us to register again that God truly became man in Christ and suffered in his flesh for the salvation of all. They engage our imagination as we reflect on a visual image together with prayer and mediation.
Why would we want to focus on such pain and sadness?
Because in these events is the truth, about our sin and about the commitment made by Christ, to taking away our sin and the death which flows from it.
The wounds of Christ are both our refuge and our inspiration. It is by them that we are saved, and by them that we are also given an example, a vision of what love is at its highest and best, and how it might be practiced by us in service to others.
Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
Begin Stations of the Cross Meditations
The Stations
- Station 1: Jesus is condemned to death
- Station 2: Jesus takes up his cross
- Station 3: Jesus falls for the first time
- Station 4: Jesus is met by his mother, Mary
- Station 5: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
- Station 6: Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Face
- Station 7: Jesus falls a second time
- Station 8: Jesus speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem
- Station 9: Jesus falls a third time
- Station 10: Jesus is stripped of his clothing
- Station 11: Jesus is nailed to the cross
- Station 12: Jesus dies on the cross
- Station 13: Jesus is taken down from the cross
- Station 14: Jesus is laid in the tomb