Station IX
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Catholic
Jesus Falls a Third Time.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me. 5 My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness; 6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning. 7 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart. 9 O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you. 10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me. 11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off. 12 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Psalm 38: 4-12, 17
Methodist *
Jesus meets the Women of Jerusalem.
27 A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.29 For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Luke 23:27-31
“Attending to the Body”
Artist: Hannah Cummings
Artist Statement
Attending to the Body -Can a woman attend to the body and blood of Christ? Has she not before?
This piece draws a through line from the women who met the historical Jesus of Nazareth to the women of today who invoke the presence of Christ through the Eucharist. The women of Jerusalem did not ask permission to grieve. They followed when the disciples scattered, held Christ's body when it was taken down, and kept vigil at the tomb when the world went silent. Women's hands have continued to hold him ever since--in the preparation of altars, the lifting of the cup, the feeding of the hungry, the tending of the Church.
From the road to Calvary to the table of the Lord, women have been there. Their presence is not a footnote. It is the thread that runs through the whole story.