The Web of the Cross

This site is a meditation using the Way of the Cross. Each “station” is linked to a web site that invites you to a response in faith to the suffering Christ in our global village. Some sites provide a directed meditation, others take you to a page of links for your reflection.

This series is based on the revised Stations of the Cross released by the Congregation of Rites in 1975. Visit the Online images of this series of the Stations by Peter Schipperheyn, created for Notre Dame University Fremantle. W.A.

This site has its origins in a Spirituality Project of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in Brisbane for 2000, the Year of Great Jubilee The 2009 version has been updated and includes a selection of sites from International Sources as well as Australia.

How to Pray Online Set aside a regular time for this prayer, perhaps when you ‘boot up” each day or as a way of closing your day’s work. Take your time to let the image or text find a home in your heart. Spend some time in silent “companionship” with each station. There is a link below that provides a form for you to share your reflections on this experience. As these comments may be published on this site I suggest you only use a first name or initials for the sake of identity. No email addresses of contributors will be published.The images and text on your screen are provided as a visual aid to your prayer. As you move through the sites offered you will need to use the “back” button on your browser to return to this page. It is recommended that you spread the” Stations” over several days or the whole season of Lent.The box indicating the number of each station is linked to the Scripture reference. The title of each station takes you to a reflection web site.

“Jesus of the People” Janet McKenzie jmckenzie2000@hotmail.com Used with Permission of the Artist

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Introduction to Commentaries on the Passion Gospels

by Donald Senior, C.P

Station 1	The Last Supper
Station 2	The Garden of Gethsemane
Station 3	Jesus before the Sanhedrin
Station 4	Jesus before Pilate
Station 5	Jesus is whipped and crowned with thorns
Station 6	Jesus carries his cross
Station 7	Jesus is helped by the Cyrenean
Station 8	Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
Station 9	Jesus is stripped and nailed to the cross
Station 10	Jesus and the Good Thief
Station 11	Jesus speaks to Mary and John
Station 12	Jesus dies
Station 13	Jesus is buried
Station 14	Jesus rises from the dead

Imagine a new Spirituality

God in the gallery (Laura Gascoigne)

Prayer Windows -
www.prayerwindows.com
This site is about how to pray with art. It presents a web gallery of works of US Jesuit Bob Gilroy designed to inspire viewers’ faith as well as their desire to be more creative. There is also an online retreat, a more organised, extended version of prayer with paintings based upon the Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius, and a series of essays on prayer and art (including ‘Spiritual Art Can Serve Others‘).

The Gallery of the Passion

The Spirit of Women

World Day of Prayer

Womanspace

The First Supper Susan Dorothea White

Dorothy Day

Esther John

Hildgarde of Bingen,

Jean Houston

Julian of Norwich

The Spirit of the Earth

Catholic Earthcare Australia
Catholic Conservation Centre
Christianity and Nature
A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on Global Change
Environmental Ethics & Public Policy Program
Liturgy Resources
Murri Spirituality
Statement of Pope John Paul 11 Jan 17 2001
GreenSpirit:
Justice priest tells Tasmanian forest congregation that ‘God is a greenie’
Biography of Thomas Berry (NCR August 2001)
Ethics and Ecology A paper delivered to the Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values Harvard University, April 9, 1996 by Thomas Berry
An Electronic Archive of Selected Papers by Thomas Berry
Best medicine — a healthy globe (NCR August 2001)
An interview with Thomas Berry, by Betty Didcoct

The Spirit of our Land

Peter Kearney

The First Supper Susan Dorothea White

The Australian Student Christian Movement

The Australian Quaker Homepage

Aquinas Academy

Eremos Institute

Web of the Cross

A History of the MANDORLA ART PRIZE

The Monastery A Passionist project in Adelaide

Prayer for our Time The multimedia prayers available on this and linked pages require the Flash™ plug-in for your web-browser as well as a sound card and loudspeakers. The Flash™ plug-in is available as a free download from http://www.macromedia.com/downloads

Spirituality for Global Mission

• Tribute to Dom Helder Camara 1909-1999
• Joseph Campbell Foundation
• Thomas Merton
• Friendship House
• Non-violence
• The Religious Society of Friends

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The Practice of Jesus

Jesus of the People

Jesus of the People

Janet Mackenzie

Late in 1999 Janet McKenzie’s painting “Jesus of the People” was selected winner of the National Catholic Reporter’s competition for a new image of Jesus by judge, Sister Wendy Beckett, host of the PBS show “Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting”. In the words of Sister Wendy, “This is a haunting image of a peasant Jesus – dark, thick-lipped, looking out on us with ineffable dignity, with sadness but with confidence. Over His white robe He draws the darkness of our lack of love, holding it to Himself, prepared to transform all sorrows if we will let Him.”

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