Station of the Cross One 2023
Allie Senyard and Larisa Shaterian, Seminarians
Holy Apostles Episcopal Church, Good Friday 2023
The Stations of the Cross
The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Die.
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The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Die.
Jesus breathed in.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Jesus stands in the most human of places. He has already experienced profound solidarity with so many on this earth, by being beaten and tortured. Now he is wrongfully condemned to punishment by death. His commitment to entering our lives completely begins its final steps. He has said "yes" to God and placed his life in God's hands. We follow him in this final surrender and contemplate with reverence each place along the way, as he is broken and given for us.
It’s one of the things that you don’t notice is happening until it’s not happening or until you have to make an effort to do it. Like even something like if you’re running and running and running and then you can’t breath all of a sudden. Or if you’re having a panic attack—which happens, it’s—you don’t notice it until it’s not there, and then it’s all you can think about. And it’s … you know, you depend on it, you don’t know you depend on it, cause it’s scary when you don’t have it. It’s interesting how when you’re doing something like a play where you’re orchestrating the silences, you do notice breath the way you don’t in real life cause you didn’t plan for the silence. So it’s—you definitely do notice it. Cause there’s one part in the play that we’re doing there’s a silence that goes on for way too long and it goes on for way too long on purpose and it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable and it is kinda funny that it does make us so uncomfortable cuz it’s such a normal thing, but, I mean, you don’t notice that it’s that weird until it’s an intentional … thing.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Jesus breathed out.
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