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    Walking the Way of the Cross: Prayers and reflections on the biblical stations of the cross
    Walking the Way of the Cross: Prayers and reflections on the biblical stations of the cross
    Walking the Way of the Cross: Prayers and reflections on the biblical stations of the cross
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    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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    Found in Common Worship: Times and Seasons, The Way of the Cross is a series of scripture-based devotions for personal or group use in Lent and Holy Week. This seasonal companion provides the full sequence of fifteen meditations, each accompanied by short reflections from three of today's very best spiritual writers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch House Publishing
    Release dateOct 30, 2019
    ISBN9780715123454
    Walking the Way of the Cross: Prayers and reflections on the biblical stations of the cross
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    Stephen Cottrell

    Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford and was formerly the Bishop of Reading. He has worked in parishes in London and Chichester, as Canon Pastor of Peterborough Cathedral, as Missioner in the Wakefield diocese and as part of Springboard, the Archbishop's evangelism team.

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      Walking the Way of the Cross - Stephen Cottrell

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      Church House Publishing

      Church House

      Great Smith Street

      London SW1P 3AZ

      ISBN 978 0 7151 2344 7

      Published 2019 by Church House Publishing

      Copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2019

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored or transmitted by any means or in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system without written permission, which should be sought from: copyright@churchofengland.org

      The Way of the Cross from Common Worship: Times and Seasons included in this volume is copyright © The Archbishops’ Council 2006.

      Images of the Stations of the Cross are copyright © 2013

      Nicholas Markell | Eyekons. Reproduced with Permission.

      The opinions expressed in the reflections are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the General Synod or The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England.

      Designed and typeset by Hugh Hillyard-Parker

      Cover design by Faith Buck

      Images by Nicholas Markell

      Copyedited by Ros Connelly

      Printed by Ashford Colour Press

      What do you think of Walking the Way of the Cross?

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          Church House Publishing, Church House,

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      Visit www.dailyprayer.org.uk for information on our Reflections series, ordering and subscriptions.

      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

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