VIRTUAL: Stations of the Cross and the Earth – A Lenten Practice

This event is being offered free of charge by Ghost Ranch to support you on your Lenten Journey. Donations are always welcome.

Monday (before Ash Wednesday), February 15 to April 2 (Good Friday)
Meetings together on Mondays – Rituals on your own on Fridays 

Click the Weekly Resources Button to access the stations of the cross and optional readings.

• Successive Mondays through Lent: February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
  5:00 pm MT (approximately 60 minutes each)
• Friday, April 2 – Good Friday Service
  2:00 pm MT (approximately 45 minutes)

Monday, February 15: Information Session 5:00 pm MT (approximately 60 minutes) – View Recording 

Note: We did not have time this go around to edit out the opening slide show – feel free to advance things to 28:30 to bypass the slide show/intro and to begin with the content which goes for 60 minutes.

The Stations of the Cross profoundly marks the spirituality of many Christians. Focusing on the last steps of Jesus before the crucifixion, the stations narrate the agony of the human soul under violence. Regardless of your Christian affiliation, in this workshop, we will go through the stations of the cross from the perspective of the Earth.

What does it mean to understand Jesus on the path to the cross from the point of view of the violence against the earth? How does the suffering of Jesus and the violence against humankind must be also understood as the suffering of the earth now under so much violence?

Relating Jesus path to the cross with climate collapse and impeding disasters, we are going to create earthly rituals that will help us understand the cross from the perspective of the earth, learn what are the challenges we must face right now and how our spirituality can be marked not by violence but by care, reciprocity and mutual healing.

SCHEDULE:

• Monday, February 15: Information Session
  5:00 pm MT (approximately 75-90 minutes)
• Wednesday, February 17: short Ash Wednesday Service
  Corrected time – 1:00 pm MT (approximately 20 minutes)
• Successive Mondays through Lent: February 22, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
  5:00 pm MT (approximately 60 minutes each)
• Friday, April 2 – Good Friday Service
  2:00 pm MT (approximately 45 minutes)