Mary’s Way of the Cross: What His Mother saw. disciples did not see.

Mary's Way of the Cross What His Mother saw. What His disciples did not see. The stations are not soft. The violence is described as she would have seen and heard it. If you want a gentle booklet with a short prayer under each picture, this is not that book. This book is written as dramatized history for private prayer. The main people and events are real. The talk, the thoughts, and some of the people in the crowd are reconstructed. This book is the Way of the Cross in Mary's voice, station by station, from that courtyard to the empty tomb. They took Him in the night. By morning Mary is in the street looking for Peter. He is not there. The men who ate with Him a few hours earlier have left her son in a Roman yard with His wrists tied to an iron ring. You stand where she stands. You hear the whip hit the post before it hits Him. You see the thorns forced down like a lid on a jar. You watch spit sit on the mouth she has wiped since He was a child, and you watch her unable to reach it. A stranger from Cyrene is pulled under the wood because the Twelve are missing. A woman she does not know wipes His face. Men He healed cover their ears. Then the nails, the seven last words, the dead weight in her arms, the stone. After the fifteen stations there is a second part: what saints have said about the Passion for 2,000 years, and a list of mystics who said they were shown those hours of the Passion of Christ, including short public-domain excerpts.