Our Earth is more than just our home - it is the source of our life. As such, we need to remember to care for our life-giving source responsibly. As part of our Earth Day activities, our students cleaned up the grounds of Holy Cross. We were assigned to the Memorial Park entrance to the school. In the words of Dr. Seuss from his book The Lorax: Opening PrayerStations are places where people wait while they are going from one place to another. A school-bus stop is like a station. People wait at train stations or bus stations or airports. Think of some stations where you have been. Stations are also places where people take time to think about Jesus as he went to die on a cross. They are “Stations of the Cross.” They show us how much Jesus loved us. The text for this Stations of the Cross is adapted from The Stations of the Cross for Children. The following images of the Stations of the Cross are life-size statues found at the National Shrine for Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. When looking at these statues, we were inspired to ask students to create a "tableau" or a living statue which represented the modern-day "Look at Your Heart" reflection for each station. The First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Die
The Second Station: Jesus Carries His Cross
The Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
The Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Sorrowful Mother
The Fifth Station: Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
The Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
The Seventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
The Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
The Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
The Tenth Station: Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
The Eleventh Station: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
The Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
The Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Placed in the Tomb
Divine Mercy ImageOn February 22, 1931, Jesus appeared to a Polish nun, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, and asked her to have an image of Him painted according to the pattern she saw, with the prayer "Jesus, I trust in You." That image, which you see below, is called the "Divine Mercy" image. The message of The Divine Mercy is simple: it is that God loves us — all of us, no matter what sins we may have committed. He wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins. If we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others, we will come to share His joy. The three o'clock hour in the afternoon, the hour our Lord Jesus gave up his life for us, is the hour of great mercy for the whole world. Jesus asks that we remember him at this hour, even if only for a brief moment, and say, "Jesus, I trust in You". At this hour, anyone who makes a request of Jesus in virtue of His Passion, will not be refused. As we approach Easter, the day our Lord Jesus triumphantly rose from the dead and showed us that through him, we have everlasting life, let us remember to turn to Jesus and trust in him for he is Love and Mercy itself.
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