STATION ONE Previous Home Next STATION THREE

MAIN

STATIONS

HISTORY

MAKING OF

MESSAGES

PRINTS

02_tributes_for_kings

"Tributes for Kings"
STATION TWO
Jesus Accepts His Cross


Mixed media oilgraph on canvas with thorns and blood
36"x36"

In this Station we see Jesus from the point of view of the Father and looking down from the top of the cross. The soldiers hands are seen presenting the cross from the sides.

We are asked to contemplate "What cross in our life are we asked to bear?"

Scriptural references
Mathew 27:31
John 19:16-17

CAST
Jesus - Paolo Durazzo
Soldiers - Dave Raven, Rod Ramsey


At the gateway of the nearly impossible
a gift  

And could you in this instant
see the trees from which it came?
See the saplings of promise that rose to the sun
and knew your name
and by hands of the lost as their time came
(as your time came)
cut
down
carved
out
and raised so high
that you shall both blot out the sun?  

For every king a tribute
and you who held the world will now hold this  

And you will hold this
And you will carry this

And you in the span of an afternoon sun
will
be driven through to this  

Forever this moment remembered by the ages
and written about by poets long since forgotten
will
be carved into us  

We see now only the dark echo
of the rock upon which they broke you  

And yes now it begins  

The kingdoms of the earth
know nothing of glory
Know nothing at all…