Today, I'm posting a special episode on The Stations of the Cross.
What follows is a Stations of the Cross text I wrote in 2004, reflecting on the images Mel Gibson provided in his movie The Passion of The Christ. Each mediation also includes a quote from one of my favorite spiritual writers.
In the show notes, you'll find links to learn more about the Stations of the Cross, sources for the quotes used in the meditations, and a link to learn more about the album Via Crucis by Dick Le Mair. Many thanks to Le Mair for granting me the rights to include his music in this episode.
How Did the Stations of the Cross Begin? - Fr. William Saunders
“For God So Loved”: C.S. Lewis’s Four Loves and the Doctrine of Christ’s Atonement - Adam J. Johnson
The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
Text of the meditations inspired by The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson
Quotation sources:
I - Into Your Hands, Father - Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen
II, IX, XII - Via Crucis - Saint Josemaría Escrivá
III - De Interpellatione David - Saint Ambrose of Milan
IV - Salt of the Earth - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
V, VIII - Transformation in Christ - Dietrich von Hildebrand
VI - De pauperum - Saint Gregory of Nazianzen
VII - The Jeweler's Shop - Karol Wojtyla
X - Interior Freedom - Fr. Jacques Philippe
XI - The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) - Saint Pope John Paul II
XIII - The Splendor of Truth (Veritatis Splendor) - Saint Pope John Paul II
XIV - The Lord's descent into hell - ancient homily for Holy Saturday
Closing prayer - Meditations on the Stations of the Cross - Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman
Music: Via Crucis by Dick Le Mair
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