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Every year, on Good Friday, Christians around the world mark the occasion of Jesus’ crucifixion with a service called the Stations of the Cross. But this year, churches around the world have closed in order to stave off the COVID-19 pandemic. Walking the Passion recreates the Stations of the Cross experience as a guided walking meditation that can be performed on your own—at home, in your neighborhood, or during a local nature walk. The project combines traditional liturgy, Ignation imaginative prayer, and guided meditation.

Walking the Passion is narrated by ten voices from the Episcopal Diocese of New York's Young Adult Network.

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Every year, on Good Friday, Christians around the world mark the occasion of Jesus’ crucifixion with a service called the Stations of the Cross. But this year, churches around the world have closed in order to stave off the COVID-19 pandemic. Walking the Passion recreates the Stations of the Cross experience as a guided walking meditation that can be performed on your own—at home, in your neighborhood, or during a local nature walk. The project combines traditional liturgy, Ignation imaginative prayer, and guided meditation.

Walking the Passion is narrated by ten voices from the Episcopal Diocese of New York's Young Adult Network.

    Go In Peace—The Conclusion to "Walking the Passion"

    Go In Peace—The Conclusion to "Walking the Passion"

    Read by Caroline Warburton
    Thank you for your time, your pilgrimage, and your prayers. Walking the Passion was made by the Episcopal Diocese of New York’s Young Adult Network. You can learn more about our ministry at www.episcopal20s30s.org.
    Thank you to the Reverend Megan Sanders, the chaplain of our ministry, for overseeing this project, and to Dr. Kathy Bozutti-Jones for reviewing the meditations in this script. This program drew on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and on the meditations in Gary Jansen’s book Station to Station. Thank you to Winston Nguyen for helping us publish this audio, and to Blue Dot Sessions for providing the music.

    Station 14—Jesus is Placed in the Tomb

    Station 14—Jesus is Placed in the Tomb

    As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.—Matthew 27: 57-60
    Read by Laura Taylor
    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    Station 13—Jesus Dies on the Cross

    Station 13—Jesus Dies on the Cross

    It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.—Luke 23: 44-46
    Read by Duncan Logie
    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    Station 12—Jesus Speaks to His Mother and the Disciple

    Station 12—Jesus Speaks to His Mother and the Disciple

    Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.—John 19: 25-27
    Read by Laura Betz
    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    Station 11—Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief

    Station 11—Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief

    One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”—Luke 23: 39-43
    Read by Molly Walters
    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    Station 10—Jesus Is Crucified

    Station 10—Jesus Is Crucified

    When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”—Luke 23: 33-34
    Read by Chelsey Masterson
    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Megan E Sanders, chaplain ,

With gratitude

Thanks be to God for this ministry offering. I will be praying along with all of you who listen, journey and pray together through the suffering of Jesus of Nazareth this Holy Week. Thank you for this beautiful and moving invitation that we can accept, with God’s help, to see and to move through the suffering in our own lives. Help us, God, as we participate in this pilgrimage of prayer, to pray for ourselves and for every person in the whole human household, holding sacred the connection we share through our human suffering. I pray we may connect with God and one another through Christ in a new way today and in the days to come that will comfort us, strengthen us and connect us. I pray that we are called to action through this practice that we are sharing together, equipping us with what we need to love and serve each other in this new and changing life we are living.

Thank you to the community of the Young Adult Network in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. God bless each and all of you-Megan E Sanders

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