Dear Friends,

This is a special edition of Contemplative at Home, offering you imaginative contemplation with the 15 stations on The Way of the Cross.

You are getting this in your inbox on Wednesday to give you a few days to pray with it this week.

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.

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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