| The Way of the Cross | ||||||
| From the trial before Pilate on the steps of the Municipal Office the crowd followed in the footsteps of Jesus as he at first carried his cross. They passed groups of women who were holding banners that told the story of that painful journey Jesus made. As the crowd followed in the footsteps of Jesus so they heard the things that happened on the way of the cross. A description of those events is woven together with the words of Isaiah 53. |  |
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| WOMAN 1 | ||||||
| He had no dignity or beauty to make us notice him There was nothing attractive about him. Nothing that would draw us to him. We despised him and rejected him, he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him - we ignored him as if he was nothing. | ||||||
| WOMAN 2 | ||||||
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He stumbled for a moment and fell the weight of that cross was so great He endured the suffering that should have been ours the pain that we should have borne all the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God. But because of our sins he was wounded. |
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| WOMAN 3 | ||||||
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He looked me in the eye Daughters of Jerusalem, don't cry for me, he said. Cry for yourselves and for your children. Because of our sins he was wounded beaten because of the evil we did. |
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| WOMAN 4 | ||||||
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He stumbled / and fell a second time Crushed for our iniquities We are healed by the punishment he suffered made whole by the blows he received. |
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| WOMAN 5 | ||||||
| They made Simon, a man from Cyrene carry the cross he was only a passer by coming in from the countryside All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going our own way. But the Lord made the punishment fall on him the punishment all of us deserved. | ||||||
| WOMAN 6 | ||||||
| Jesus saw his mother a face in the crowd for a moment he stopped but he said nothing He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly he never said a word. | ||||||
| WOMAN 7 | ||||||
| A third time he stumbled / and fell Like a lamb about to be slaughtered like a sheep about to be sheared, he never said a word. | ||||||
| WOMAN 8 | ||||||
| The road was hard and steep it grew longer by the minute He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of us all. | ||||||
| WOMAN 9 | ||||||
| A woman in the crowd stepped forward to wipe his brow Maybe God's will is in this. His death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness He will live a long life And through him God's purpose will succeed. | ||||||
| WOMAN 10 | ||||||
| The place is near now - stark and forbidding After a life of suffering he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am well pleased. | ||||||
| WOMAN 11 | ||||||
| Two thieves with him they too have a cross to carry and around him the great and the good God will give him a place of honour a place among great and powerful people. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil people. | ||||||
| WOMAN 12 | ||||||
| Golgotha, the Place of the Skull. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that we might be forgiven. | ||||||
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