Walking the Way of the Cross: Prayers and reflections on the biblical stations of the cross
By Stephen Cottrell and Paula Gooder
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Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Reading in the Church of England. He has written or contributed to Reflections for Daily Prayer, the Emmaus discipleship course, Traveling Well, and Praying Through Life.
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Walking the Way of the Cross - Stephen Cottrell
Church House Publishing
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ISBN 978 0 7151 2344 7
Published 2019 by Church House Publishing
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CONTENTS
About the authors
Foreword
How to use this book
The Gathering
1st Station: Jesus in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
2nd Station: Jesus betrayed by Judas and arrested
3rd Station: Jesus condemned by the Sanhedrin
4th Station: Peter denies Jesus
5th Station: Jesus judged by Pilate
6th Station: Jesus scourged and crowned with thorns
7th Station: Jesus carries the cross
8th Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross
9th Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
10th Station: Jesus is crucified
11th Station: Jesus promises the kingdom to the penitent thief
12th Station: Jesus on the cross; his mother and his friend
13th Station: Jesus dies on the cross
14th Station: Jesus laid in the tomb
15th Station: Jesus risen from the dead
The Conclusion
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford. He is a well-known writer and speaker on evangelism, spirituality and catechesis. He is one of the team that produced Pilgrim, the popular course for the Christian Journey.
Paula Gooder is the Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, London. She is a New Testament scholar, with a particular expertise in the writings of Paul, and has written a wide range of books on the Bible and its interpretation. She is also one of the team that produced Pilgrim, the popular course for the Christian Journey.
Philip North is the Bishop of Burnley. He has spent much of his ministry in urban and estates parishes in the Dioceses of Durham and London, and has also served as Priest Administrator of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. He is a member of the Company of Mission Priests.
FOREWORD
by Archbishop Justin Welby
The journey of being a Christian is not an easy one, especially as we follow Christ along the agonizing route towards his death, but it is one that we do not take alone.
In this book, Paula Gooder, Bishop Stephen Cottrell and Bishop Philip North combine their considerable knowledge, experience and profound pastoral gifts to walk alongside us as we take the journey with Christ to the Cross.
In this journey, Christ defies, yet again, everything we think we knew about God. God here isn’t the mighty conqueror we might have expected, the warrior who will destroy our oppressors and liberate our people through force. He is the wounded and the broken. He is the one who suffers with us, the one who agonizes and understands the reality of anger and hurt, humiliation and brokenness that we have all felt, at some time or other, as part of being a human being. God puts himself at the mercy of his own creation, takes on all our humanity, and knows the darkest, most painful and most vulnerable parts of what it is to be human. Nothing in our human experience is too terrible for God to bear, for he has willingly taken it upon himself.
We know, of course, that Christ bursts out through the other side of death, victorious, our sins forgiven because of his sacrifice. But sharing in Christ’s throne means carrying his cross, because we know that the brutal heights of being raised up on the cross will be mirrored a thousand times over in the glory of Christ being raised up, exulted, in heaven. Christ chooses to bear that burden for us, and we in turn choose to follow him so that he might raise us as high as he has felt our lows. He knows our frailty as humans, and will walk alongside as we carry burdens we fear may crush us.
There are many ways in which we can encounter Christ through the Stations of the Cross, wherever we are on our journey with him and with ourselves. This book offers us tools for doing so in a group, as part of worship, or simply as part of quiet, intimate contemplation. The three concurrent approaches, deeply rooted in the biblical narrative, have something to offer for everyone.
The Stations of the Cross mean many different things for many