• The San Damiano Crucifix
• The Story Of The Cross
• With Clare
• With Francis
• A Way of The Passion
  • 1 The Last Supper
  • 2 The agony in the garden
  • 3 Judas betrays Jesus
  • 4 Peter denies Jesus
  • 5 Jesus is mocked, scourged and crowned with thorns
  • 6 Jesus is condemed to death
  • 7 Jesus falls beneath the cross
  • 8 Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross
  • 9 Jesus speaks to the women
  • Jesus is stripped and nailed to the cross
  • 11 Jesus promises paradise to a thief
  • 12 Jesus gives his mother to the Church
  • 13 Jesus dies on the cross
  • 14 Jesus rises from Death
    

But the fact is, it was our pains he carried -
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him - our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed.

Let every creature
in heaven, on earth, in the sea and in the depths,
give praise, glory, honour and blessing
to him who suffered so much,
who has given and will give in the future every good,
for he is our power and strength,
who alone is good,
who alone is almighty,
who alone is omnipotent, wonderful, glorious
and who alone is holy,
worthy of all praise and blessing
through endless ages.
Amen.

Your Spouse, more beautiful than the sons of men, became, for your salvation, the lowest of men, despised, struck, scourged untold times in his whole body.