a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross Grief is a journey. What losses are you facing in your life? What are you mourning? On the verge of a new season of life, grief has been hovering near the surface of my emotions for the last… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross In this station we are invited again to consider who we know who is struggling, and how we can support or encourage them. While not directly in the Gospel accounts of Jesus, the narrator shares a passage from… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross The story of Veronica’s encounter with Jesus on the way to Calvary is not in the Gospels, but tradition says she might have been the same woman who had touched Jesus’ robe earlier and been healed. If she… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross I grew up with this song as the re-enactment of this part of the story. Simon is an innocent bystander, in the city of Jerusalem to sacrifice his lamb for Passover, and gets called into this grand narrative… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross experience. In the commentary on this station, the narrator talks about the prophecy Mary receives from Simeon about her heart being broken as she watches Jesus approach his death. The question the narrator asks is, “Has your heart been broken… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross experience. This is the first station that doesn’t connect specifically with a situation in scripture, but has been part of church tradition for a long time. And isn’t that true–that there are things that this story of Jesus does and… Continue reading
a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross experience. What does it mean that Jesus takes up his cross, and then invites us to do the same? Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their… Continue reading
The first of a series of reflections based on this online stations of the cross experience. “Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many accusations they make against you?” But (Jesus) gave them no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly… Continue reading
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24) I honestly can’t tell if this is good news today or not. How do we rejoice when social distancing is taking its toll? How do we make sense of God making… Continue reading
The circumference of the city shall be eighteen thousand cubits. and the name of the city from that time on shall be The Lord is There. (Ezekiel 48:33) The verses and chapters preceding this verse are full of all sorts of specific measurements and requirements for the life of the… Continue reading