DEVOTION - SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012
Holy Land Devotions 2010 - Day 40
photos by Lynn Wolf
The Via Dolorosa "The Way of Sorrow" by Rev. Heidi Bak, Porchtown UMC
The Via Dolorosa or "Way of Sorrow" winds along the narrow streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Pictured above is a typical hallway/stairway that you travel and the Fifth of fourteen stations marked along the route.
This is the traditional route Jesus followed
bearing His cross from Pilate's Judgement Hall in the Antonia, to Calvary Hill or Golgotha, the site of the crucifixion. The Fourteen Stations are:
1. Jesus is condemned to death
2. Jesus takes up his cross
3. Jesus falls under the Cross for the first time
4. Jesus meets his mother
5. Simon the Cyrenian is forced to carry the Cross
6. Veronica wipes the sweat from Jesus' face
7. Jesus falls for the second time
8. Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
9. Jesus falls for the third time
10. Jesus is stripped of his garments
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus is taken down from the cross
14. Jesus is laid in the Tomb
This was an incredibly powerful experience to walk and remember what Jesus Christ did for me, for us, for humanity. But, there was something missing for me. The final station remembers Jesus in the Tomb-but that is not the end of the story!!
We need to remember the living Jesus rises from the tomb. Mark 16:6 says, "And the Angel said to the women: 'He has risen. He is not here." Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again. Alleluia
How are you remembering Jesus walk this Lenten season? Are you living in the light of the crucifixion or the resurrection?
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