The Way of the Cross

<p>2021 Reprint of the 1955 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated by the author. There is one dominant them in all of Houselander's writing-the relation of the Passion of Christ to the world of today. Here for the first time she has written a book entirely on the Passion or on those aspects of if which we consider in the Stations of the Cross. By her imaginative recreation of the Passion itself realized with extraordinary intensity detail and dept she stages a drama whose and anguish and tragedy have for too many of us passed into the unfelt pieties of the prayer book. She also shows us the Passion reflected in all human suffering.</p><p>Contents:        </p><p>Jesus is Condemned to Death -- Jesus Receives his Cross -- Jesus Falls the First Time -- Jesus meets his Mother -- Simon Helps Jesus to Carry the Cross -- Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus -- Jesus Falls the Second Time -- Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem -- Jesus Falls the Third Time -- Jesus is Stripped of his Garments -- Jesus is Nailed to the Cross -- Jesus Dies on the Cross -- Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross -- Jesus is Laid in the Tomb</p>