Dear Friends,
This is a special edition of Contemplative at Home, offering you a brief imaginative contemplation with each of the 14 stations on "The Way of the Cross".
The Way of the Cross a resource inspired by the traditional stations of the cross, but using 14 moments from the gospel accounts.
You will also find a bonus 15th station, which is to be used on Easter Sunday, or any time thereafter.
You might pray with this all at once, perhaps with a group, but it would also be very appropriate to dip in and out - to pray with a few stations at a time, perhaps throughout the day, or over a few days.
Why not move around your home or garden while you pray, observing each station in a different location?
Here are the timings so that you can easily find your place should you be coming back to it after a break. You might want to use the Opening ("Stilling") and the Review Questions each time you engage with a few of the stations.
0:00 Introduction
1:48 Stilling and preparing for prayer
7:35 The First Station : Jesus in Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
13:29 The Second Station : Jesus is Betrayed
17:35 The Third Station : Jesus is Condemned by the Sanhedrin
23:10 The Fourth Station : Peter Denies Jesus
26:50 The Fifth Station : Jesus is Judged by Pilate
30:03 The Sixth Station : Jesus is Scourged and Crowned with Thorns
33:15 The Seventh Station : Jesus Carries His Cross
36:00 The Eight Station : Simon of Cirene Helps Jesus to Carry the Cross
38:40 The Ninth Station : Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
44:05 The Tenth Station : Jesus is Crucified
47:20 The Eleventh Station : Jesus Promises the Kingdom to the Penitent Thief
52:04 The Twelfth Station : Jesus on the Cross, His Mother and His Friend
56:52 The Thirteenth Station : Jesus Dies on the Cross
1:00:46 The Fourteenth Station : Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
1:05:14 The Fifteenth Station : Jesus is Risen from the Dead
1:09:57 Review Questions
The text for each station, and the prayers read at each station, are published by the Church of England, and can be found here: https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/holy-week-and-easter-1#mm022
THE BLESSING OF CHRIST BE WITH YOU. MUCH love, Lissy
Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer - space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God's love for you today - drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.
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