Station 13 Jesus is taken down from the cross and placed in the arms of his mother
The Scriptures
do not tell us that the body of Jesus was laid in the arms of his mother, but
Mark 15:47 says that she was there as the body was taken down. Every mother in
the world knows that she needed one last time to hold her child, to remember
struggle of his birth, to see his life flash before her eyes. There are no
words to express the deepest darkest depths of agony that she felt. There are
no decibels to register the sound of her wails.
She had
watched him die, powerless to stop the machine of religious establishment, of
empire, of men’s fears that led to treachery, violence, and now death. Did she
remember his promises of rising on the third day? If she did they were
forgotten as his blood stained her robe and her mind neared psychosis with
pain.
O Lord, your
mother symbolizes every mother who has watched her child suffer. May even in
this we know your presence and comfort.
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