Station 6 Devotional
VI Youth and innocence are slain Their blood, it leaves a stubborn stain Another wiped the blood that hid your face I need a cloth to...
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dianneallengarcia
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Station 5 Devotional
V With crucifix and book they came They want our gods to be the same You watched a stranger free you from your chain I let the stranger...
dianneallengarcia
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Station 4 Devotional
IV I watch the little children play Their eyes hold on to me the way Your eyes caressed the one who gave your name Compassion, fill my...
dianneallengarcia
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Station 3 Devotional
III Around me I see sick and lame Strength and weakness bear no shame When powerless to stand, your strength gave way To love them...
dianneallengarcia
- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Station 2 Devotional
II No words compel the breaking day Creation loves the quiet way With no defense you shouldered all the blame With silence I will work...
dianneallengarcia
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
Station 1 Devotional
For the next fourteen days I will be posting short devotionals on the Stations of the Cross. The posts contain an image from the banner...
SAMC
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Emptiness, A Cross and A Tomb: Stations 13 & 14
by Melinda Creech, Guest Blogger for Lent Station 13 The thirteenth line of the sonnet, “Those who remained took all that they could...
SAMC
- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Crucifixion: Stations 11 & 12
by Melinda Creech, Guest Blogger for Lent Station 11 “A hammer’s blow consigned you to your fate” remembers the eleventh Station of the...
SAMC
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
Mourning Together
How do we mourn well? I’ve been thinking about this question the last few days. Sunday morning I received a call that an old...
SAMC
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Three Crosses and a Pair of Dice: Stations 9 & 10
by Melinda Creech, Guest Blogger for Lent Station 9 The ninth line of the sonnet is “A final time you fell beneath the weight.” This is...
SAMC
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Humanity: Stations 7 & 8
Station 7 The seventh line of the sonnet is “You felt your body conquered by the strain.” In the traditional Stations of the Cross, Jesus...
SAMC
- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
Compassion: Stations 5 & 6
The events of the last days of Jesus are sometimes referred to as the Passion of Christ. The word “passion” means suffering. The prefix...
SAMC
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
Love and Sorrow
by Melinda Creech, guest blogger for Lent Station 3 The third line of the sonnet is “When powerless to stand your strength gave way.” The...
SAMC
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Beginning: Stations 1 & 2
by Melinda Creech, guest blogger for Lent Aschbacher reports in her book, Seventy Years in the Kingdom, that when they sold the original...
SAMC
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Center of the Cross
<<by Melinda Creech, guest blogger for Lent>> The next step in making the papercut banner is drawing the design out on the paper. I try...
dianneallengarcia
- Feb 19, 2021
- 5 min
When your heart is blighted remember that you are a temple of love
Is anyone else feeling like we are living out Psalm 102 this week? For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My...
SAMC
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
What's a papercut banner?
<<by Melinda Creech (guest blogger for Lent!)>> I thought I would tell you a little bit about the process of making papercut banners. I...
SAMC
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Oración del Vía Crucis, San Juan 1763
<<by Melinda Creech (guest blogger for Lent!)>> A few years ago, I wrote a poem called “Oración del Vía Crucis, San Juan 1763.” The poem...
dianneallengarcia
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
Al fin juntos
Hay milagros que ocurren en nuestro alrededor todos los días. Pero la mayoría de ellos son milagros ordinarios. El hecho de que el sol...
dianneallengarcia
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
Reunification
There are miracles that happen around us every day. But most of those are ordinary miracles. The fact that the sun rises each day is...
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