I want to say I visted this site and found Marnie`s at kastlekidz What an inspiration her words are, I needed to read them.The meditation is awsome..Thanks Marnie! [her space is on the comment for hhhmmm]

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Jesus ~ His Last Week

The Church commemorates the climactic week in the life of Jesus Christ, ending in  His death and resurrection...

 

Palm Sunday

 

Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph; hailed by Jews who pave His way with palm leaves.

 

Holy Week

 

Jesus preaches with disciples in Bethany

 

Holy Thursday

 

The Last Supper ~ Institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood

 

Garden of Gethsemane ~ Jesus prays and in His agony, sweats blood.  He is then betrayed by a kiss from His apostle, Judas, and arrested.  Jesus is taken to Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea, and questioned.

 

Good Friday

 

Jesus is scouraged and sentenced to death.  He is mocked cruelly by soldiers and fitted with a crown of thorns.

 

Golgotha:  Place of the Skull ~ Jesus stumbles several times and is helped by Simon of Cyrene.

 

Crucifixion ~ Jesus, naked,  is nailed to a cross; positioned between two thieves.  Jesus dies on the cross and soldiers lance his side; blood and water pour from the wound.  Jesus is then taken down from the cross and laid in a tomb.

 

Easter Sunday

 

Resurrection ~ Jesus rises from the dead, leaving an empty tomb with the stone rolled back.  Appears to Mary Magdalene and says "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father.  But go to my brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" John 20:17

 

 

MEDITATION

 

Many of us have stood beneath the cross.  Sometimes it is the cross of disease and death.  If you have ever seen someone succumbing to the ravages of a disease and watched the dewindling and destruction of his or her body, you have been at the foot of the cross with Mary.  If you have been a parent and had a child die in an unexpected, harsh or violent way, you have known the heartache of Mary as she watched Jesus die.

 

The "crosses" we stand by may not always mean that the one who hangs there is physically dying.  If you have listened and listened to a friend who is journeying back through old wounds, you have been there beneath the cross.  If you have watched someone you love become devoured by drugs or alcohol and heard the denials and false promises, you have had a place beneath the cross. 

 

Any time you have beeen with another person who is suffering and have been unable to take the pain away, you have been at the cross with Mary.  When love is the motivation, one can wait beneath the cross for a very long time.