Stations of the Cross

First Station: Jesus is condemned to death



Second Station: Jesus carries His cross



Third Station: Jesus falls the first time



Fourth Station: Jesus meets his mother



Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry his cross



Sixth Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus



Seventh Station: Jesus falls the second time



Eighth Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem



Ninth Station: Jesus falls a third time



Tenth Station: Jesus clothes are taken away



Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross



Twelfth Station: Jesus dies on the cross



Thirteenth Station: The body of Jesus is taken down from the cross



Fourteenth Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb

Stations of the Cross Brings Faithful to Tears

Supreme sacrifice moves faithful to tears
Caroline Overington | July 19, 2008

IT is known as the greatest story ever told, and yesterday it came to Sydney, with passionate young Catholics re-enacting the final hours of Jesus's life, and Christ's ultimate victory over death, in detail both glorious and gory.

In a performance that significantly dampened the previously buoyant mood of World Youth Day, the broken figure of Christ, played by 27-year-old Alfio Stutio, stumbled barefoot and bleeding through a Sydney production of biblical proportions, over 13stations of the cross.

The Prince of Peace was tortured, lashed, mocked, stripped, crowned with thorns and then crucified in front of an audience of 100,000 people at Barangaroo, the old Sydney docksite, just as the sun began to set.

Winter sunshine of recent days had given way to strong and icy winds. Pilgrims who came to see the dramatic finale wrapped themselves in the flags of their nations, and huddled together for warmth. Christ's tormentors did not nail Jesus through the wrists, as happened in the Bible, but lashed him with leather straps to the large wooden cross as it lay prone on the ground.

The cross, and the man upon it, then rose slowly from the ground. Stutio's face was revealed as stained with dust, sweat, tears and blood, and his naked chest heaved. Many in the crowd fell to their knees and wept.

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I watched a good part of it on EWTN the other night. I thought it was pretty well done, except for the interpretive dance in between some parts of it. The dancers themselves were good, but thats not really my thing so it was all sort of lost on me. Another article I saw the other day said that 500,000,000 people watched it on TV. Thats amazing to me.