“I surrender my own life, and no one has the power to take my life from me. I have the authority to lay it down and the power to take it back again.”
Jesus, Gospel of John 10:18 TPT
In my (Clare’s) childhood, stations of the cross were the gateway to Easter. There was no resurrection without first contemplating the cross from Noon-3pm on Good Friday. This rhythm that has lasted my entire life gives me a way to encounter this almighty and all vulnerable God with skin. Jesus the Christ who came to earth with full knowledge that his incarnation, loaded with loving, healing, and the Good News, would come to an end by humans who required violence to remedy their guilt and religious fears.
Theologian, John Dun Scotus said, “Our predestination to glory is prior by nature to any notion of sin.” Franciscans describe the cross as a “…freely chosen revelation of Love on God’s part. In so doing, they reversed the engines of almost all world religion up to that point, which assumed humans had to spill blood to get to a distant and demanding God. On the cross, Franciscans believed, God was “spilling blood” to reach out to us! This is a sea change in consciousness. Instead of being a theological transaction, the crucifixion was a dramatic demonstration of God’s outpouring love, meant to utterly shock the heart and mind and turn it back toward trust and love of the Creator.”*
Dear friends, we invite you today to join Christians all over the world who will meet Christ in the Stations of the Cross. Today, receive God as Love. Allow yourself to love God with a new heart, mind and strength. See what God will speak to you through both this tradition and the the Holy Spirit’s ever present awareness of what you need to hear today.
We have 4 ways for you to join us-
1. Join us in-person (limited attendance) or online for Good Friday service.
This will be an OUTDOOR service on the labyrinth. We will walk the Stations of the Cross together (safe-distanced of course!). FREE tickets click here.
2. Click here and participate ONLINE @ NOON!
3. Come anytime on Good Friday to walk the labyrinth with Stations of the Cross on your own, or with your family/friends. Good Friday booklets will be available in a box at the labyrinth (back right corner of the campus.)
4. If you can’t come in person, or participate live at noon we have a shortened prerecorded version below. Click here for art** and prayers here.