Sunday 1st August, 2010
The Ninth Sunday After Trinity
The Way Of The Cross
Via Crucis
An informal series of meditations on the Passion of Christ, drawing on the Holy Scriptures, well-loved hymns, and passages from the Book of Common Prayer.
Introduction
HOLY Meditation produces the passions and
desires it intends, it makes the object present and almost sensible, it renews
the first passions by a fiction of imagination, it passes from the Paschal Parlour
to Cedron, it tells the drops of sweat, and measures them and findes
them as big as drops of bloud, and then conjectures at the greatnesse of our
sins; it fears in the midst of CHRISTS agonies, it hears his groans,
it spies Judas his Lanthorn afar off, it follows JESUS to Gabbatha; and
wonders at his innocence and their malice, and feels the strokes of the Whip,
and shrinks the head when the Crown of Thorns is thrust hard upon his holy
brows, and at last goes step by step with JESUS, and carries part of
the Crosse, and is nailed fast with sorrow and compassion, and dies with love.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
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