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OF THE CROSS We Adore You, O Christ, And We Praise You. As Christ carries his cross directionally He meets his mother,
Mary, and they look intently into each other's eyes. Mary, standing
with an arm on Jesus' shoulder accepts with deep compassion his
journey, and Christ responds in understanding love to the one
who bore, nurtured, and raised him to follow his Father's plan.
An older Jewish woman behind Christ, with hand clenched almost
as in prayer, expresses a tired, drawn sad look as she identifies
with the exchange between Mother and Son. She, because of her
own experiences of life's pain, woundedness, and loss, can sympathize
in compassion with the situation unfolding before her eyes. |
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Off to the side and behind a wall, a
guard is depicted with a written inscription in his hands, "JESUS
THE NAZOREAN THE KING OF THE JEWS" (Jn 19:17), which
will eventually be nailed to the cross above the head of Christ.
Dealing with artistic symbolism--that of looking at a scene of art
and freezing its depiction in time--this wall, like other walls,
represents that of locking something out, or it depicts that of
being out of relationship with someone or something. The guard behind
the wall is looking away from the scene, away from compassion, away
from the Cross that Christ carried, now located partially on Rome
and partly on Israel. This man is unaware of who he is helping to
put to death, he is outside or unaware that, It was our infirmities
that He bore, our sufferings that He endured,...He was pierced for
our offenses, crushed for our sins, upon him was the chastisement
that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. We had all gone
astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid
upon him the guilt of us all ( Is 53:4-6). Stations of the Cross Walking Tour Map |