Two or three years ago in Lent I posted (on a different blog) the stations of the cross with pictures of everyday people instead of Jesus. It was a good spiritual practice for me, so I decided to try it again with new images. Why? I believe that God suffers every time one of God's creation suffers, and so this is my attempt to see Christ in the world around me. On Good Friday, I think it's especially important to remember those around the world who are suffering. And so, without further ado, I give you this year's rendition (taken from Google images).
Stations of the Cross
First station: Jesus is condemned to die
final stop of death row
Second station: Jesus takes up his cross
Third station: Jesus falls the first time
Fourth station: Jesus meets his afflicted mother
Fifth station: The cross is laid on Simon of Cyrene
Sixth station: A woman wipes the face of Jesus
bird being cleaned after oil spill
Seventh station: Jesus falls a second time
Eighth station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
woman in Haiti
women in Libya praying
Ninth station: Jesus falls a third time
Tenth station: Jesus is stripped of his garments
Eleventh station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
Twelfth station: Jesus dies on the cross
nuns killed during the civil war in El Salvador
Thirteenth station: The body of Jesus is placed in the arms of his mother
a Sudanese woman closing the eyes of her child
a woman mourning the death of her child in Iraq
Fourteenth station: Jesus is laid in the tomb
hanging coffins in the Philippines
"Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." BCP p. 823
