Stations of the Cross

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Stations of the Cross
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First station Jesus is condemned to death
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Pilate said to the people, Here is your king!
They shouted back, Kill him! Kill him! Crucify
him!
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Pilate asked the crowd, Which one of these two
do you want me to set free for you? Barabbas!
they answered. What, then, shall I do with Jesus
called the Messiah? Pilate asked them. Crucify
him! they all answered.
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When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but
that a riot might break out, he took some water,
washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said,
I am not responsible for the death of this man!
This is your doing! The whole crowd answered,
Let the responsibility for his death fall on us
and our children!
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Second Station Jesus receives the cross
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The soldiers put a purple robe on Jesus, made a
crown out of thorny branches, and put it on his
head. Then they began to salute him Long live
the King of the Jews! (Mk 1516-20)
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Jesus went out, carrying his cross and came to
The Place of the Skull, as it is called. (In
Hebrew it is called Golgotha.) There the
soldiers crucified him. Pilate wrote a notice and
had it put on the cross. Jesus of Nazareth, the
King of the Jews, is what he wrote.
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Jesus endured abandonment, tortures, mocking, to
be shoved about by others and finally going into
his own suffering.
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Third Station Jesus falls the first time
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Jesus has never abandoned his cross although he
suffers both spiritually and physically. He is
willing to endure all these in order to save
people from their sins.
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The uproar of the people, the coarse soldiers and
the angers of the crowd splashed their fury upon
Jesus.
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Fourth Station Jesus meets His Mother
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Standing close to Jesus' cross were his mother,
Mary. Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he
loved standing there so he said to his mother,
He is your son. Then he said to the disciple,
She is your mother. From that time the disciple
took her to live in his home.
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When Jesus was going to the execution ground,
Mary looked at him without hatred and wailing.
From Bethlehem to Calvary, Marys heart magnified
God.
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Fifth Station Simon of Cyrene carries Jesus
cross
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On the way they met a man named Simon, who was
coming into the city from the country, and the
soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross. (Mk
1521)
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Sixth Station Veronica wipes Jesus face with
her veil
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Through Jesus tears, blood and death, people is
granted to meet the Almighty God face to face.
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Seventh Station Jesus falls the second time
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Judas betrayed him, Peter denied him, Herod and
Pilate scourged him, his beloved people insulted
him, his broken heart and the wearily body made
him fell down again.
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Eighth Station Jesus meets the daughters of
Jerusalem
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Some women who were weeping and wailing for him.
Jesus turned to them and said, Women of
Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves
and your children.
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Ninth Station Jesus falls the third time
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Jesus fell down again and again, there is nobody
who would give a helping hand, only a cruel whip
came down on him mercilessly.
We are healed by the punishment he suffered,
made whole by the blows he received
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Tenth Station Jesus is stripped of His garments
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After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took
his clothes and divided them into four parts, one
part for each soldier. They also took the robe,
which was made of one piece of woven cloth
without any seams in it. The soldiers said to one
another, Let's not tear it let's throw dice to
see who will get it. This happened in order to
make the scripture come true They divided my
clothes among themselves and gambled for my
robe.
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They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown out
of thorny branches, and put it on his head. 18
Then they began to salute him Long live the
King of the Jews! 19 They beat him over the head
with a stick, spat on him, fell on their knees,
and bowed down to him. 20 When they had finished
mocking him, they took off the purple robe and
put his own clothes back on him. Then they led
him out to crucify him.
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Eleventh Station Crucifixion-Jesus is nailed to
the cross
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Above his head they put the written notice of the
accusation against him This is Jesus, the King
of the Jews. Then they crucified two bandits
with Jesus, one on his right and the other on his
left. People passing by shook their heads and
hurled insults at Jesus You were going to tear
down the Temple and build it up again in three
days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on
down from the cross! In the same way the chief
priests and the teachers of the Law and the
elders jeered at him He saved others, but he
cannot save himself! Isn't he the king of Israel?
If he comes down off the cross now, we will
believe in him! He trusts in God and claims to be
God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to
save him now! Even the bandits who had been
crucified with him insulted him in the same way.
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Jesus was crucified with nothing, he abandoned
his dignity and rights, he endured all the
insults nakedly.
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Twelfth Station Jesus dies on the cross
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At about three o'clock Jesus cried out with a
loud shout, My God, my God, why did you abandon
me?
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Jesus knew that by now everything had been
completed and in order to make the scripture
come true, he said, I am thirsty. A bowl was
there, full of cheap wine so a sponge was soaked
in the wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted
up to his lips. Jesus drank the wine and said,
It is finished!
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It was about twelve o'clock when the sun
stopped shining and darkness covered the whole
country until three o'clock and the curtain
hanging in the Temple was torn in two. Jesus
cried out in a loud voice, Father! In your hands
I place my spirit! He said this and died. The
army officer saw what had happened, and he
praised God, saying, Certainly he was a good
man!
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Thirteenth Station Jesus body is removed from
the cross
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The Jewish authorities asked Pilate to allow them
to break the legs of the men who had been
crucified, and to take the bodies down from the
crosses. They requested this because it was
Friday, and they did not want the bodies to stay
on the crosses on the Sabbath, since the coming
Sabbath was especially holy. When the soldiers
came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead,
so they did not break his legs.
Not one of his bones will be broken.
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One of the soldiers, however, plunged his spear
into Jesus' side, and at once blood and water
poured out.
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Fourteenth Station Jesus is laid in the tomb
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After this, Joseph, who was from the town of
Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus'
body. Pilate told him he could have the body, so
Joseph went and took it away. (John
1938)
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The two men took Jesus' body and wrapped it in
linen with the spices according to the Jewish
custom of preparing a body for burial. There was
a garden in the place where Jesus had been put to
death, and in it there was a new tomb where no
one had ever been buried. Since it was the day
before the Sabbath and because the tomb was close
by, they placed Jesus' body there.
(John 1940-42)