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Tonight we’re gathering together for what we’re calling “A Multimedia Meditation”. It’s a (modified) Stations of the Cross using visual artwork to guide us as we seek to experience a taste of Jesus’ crucifixion.

I did this two years ago at our sending church, and it’s slightly modified from last time. What we’ve chosen to do is to focus on the stations that we find in the Scriptural record, showing an image from that moment alongside a portion of Scripture describing the moment and, especially for the later moments in the series, we use multiple images from artists throughout history: Michaelangelo’s Pieta; Carracci’s Dead Christ Mourned; that sort of thing.

I’ll read a background guided meditation similar to the ones at each station link here. My goal is to leave us all with a sense of angst, brokenness, thankfulness, expectation, tension without resolution. I think we can do that.

Heavy on the dark room and candles tonight. No coffee or snacks. We WILL have the kids in the room with us, so that’ll be interesting because it’s hard to be contemplative when the lego blocks are crashing to the floor, but so be it.

There’s a good description of how to pray the Stations here.