LIVING STATIONS OF THE CROSS
It has become a custom at Curley at the end of Lent to walk with Jesus as he takes his last steps to Calvary. These "Living Stations of the Cross" is sponsored by the Franciscan Youth Ministry of Curley and narrated and acted by Curley students and faculty. Tim Pillsbury '10 and Ms. Cheryl Jose served as narrators. As Jesus makes his way around the auditorium, the action stops at poignant moments--his sentencing, his falling under the weight of the cross, meeting his mother Mary, being helped by a stranger, having his tunic stripped off of his body and being nailed to the cross he carried. What sorrow could be greater than a mother holding the dead body of her son before burial. Yet, the story does not end in the tomb. After three days Jesus is raised to new life by the grace of God--death no longer has power over him. This is the powerful, wonderful moment we celebrate on Easter Sunday.
Fr. Michael, Curley's President, reminded those assembled that we do not simply re-enact a historical moment. The pain of Jesus is our pain, and our neighbor's pain. We walk with Jesus and recognize that his fall, his being laughed at and scorned, is our hurt. Or maybe it is our actions inflicted on others? And as Jesus was raised up, so we shall be raised up--from our pain, from our sins, from our addictions, and from death on the last day.
View some of the scenes from the Living Stations below, and make your own meditation.