Neighborhood Outreach Art Project:
Jesus in Carondelet

In November 2019, we were awarded a Diocesan New Ventures Grant to create a neighborhood art series to display both in our Sanctuary and in the neighborhood. The result was Jesus in Carondelet: Stations of the Cross.  The images have local scenes from Carondelet in the background and use collage to express the artist's imaginings of Jesus' via dolorosa (way of suffering) as applied to the challenges of modern life.  

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Station 1:
​Jesus is condemned to death

Station 2:
​Jesus is made to bear his cross

The artist places various figures against a photo of the local police substation. By Jimmy A.

The artist depicts a man in the process of being arrested as receiving his cross. By Roy F

Station 3:
​Jesus falls

Station 4:
​Jesus meets his mother

​The artist chose images of despair and heaviness imagining the weight of Jesus' pain. ​By Dez

The artist chooses images of comfort. ​By Evan S.

Station 5: 
​Simon of Cyrene is made to bear the cross

Station 6:
​The women of Jerusalem weep over Jesus

The artist chose images to imagine how Simon felt while walking with Jesus. By AU

The artist chose women in various contexts to express their sadness. ​By Rebecca R.

Station 7:
​Jesus is stripped of his garment

Station 8:
​Jesus is nailed to the cross

The artist chose to show all the ways humans are stripped of their dignity.

The artist shows people oblivious to Jesus and his suffering, and whose lives still matter to God. ​By Anthony S.

Station 9:
​Jesus dies on the cross

Station 10:
​Jesus is taken down from the cross

There are no words and no details beside the cruelty and abandonment of that moment.

The Lamb of God has given everything for us and most of us turn our backs.

Station 11:
​Jesus is placed in the tomb

While the weeping and sadness continue, "It is over."

Savior of the world, by your cross and precious blood you have redeemed us.
Save us, and help us, we humbly beseech you, O Lord.
We thank you, heavenly Father, that you have delivered us from the dominion of sin and death and brought us into the kingdom of your Son, and we pray that, as by his death he has recalled us to life, so by his love he may raise us to eternal joys; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
To Christ our Lord who loves us, and in his own blood, and made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.

From the Episcopal Book of Occasional Services

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