Walking the Passion

Read by Caroline Warburton

Thank you for your time, your pilgrimage, and your prayers. Walking the Passion was made by the Episcopal Diocese of New York’s Young Adult Network. You can learn more about our ministry at www.episcopal20s30s.org.

Thank you to the Reverend Megan Sanders, the chaplain of our ministry, for overseeing this project, and to Dr. Kathy Bozutti-Jones for reviewing the meditations in this script. This program drew on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and on the meditations in Gary Jansen’s book Station to Station. Thank you to Winston Nguyen for helping us publish this audio, and to Blue Dot Sessions for providing the music.

As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.—Matthew 27: 57-60

Read by Laura Taylor

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.—Luke 23: 44-46

Read by Duncan Logie

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.—John 19: 25-27

Read by Laura Betz

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”—Luke 23: 39-43

Read by Molly Walters

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”—Luke 23: 33-34

Read by Chelsey Masterson

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”—Luke 23: 27-31

Read by Luke Petrinovic

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. —Mark 15: 21

Read by Schuyler Rowe

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.” But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.—John 19: 6, 15-17

Read by Laura Taylor

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.—John 19: 1-3

Read by Duncan Logie

Music by Blue Dot Sessions