Our 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.
Station 1: Jesus is condemned to death
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The artist places various figures against a photo of the local police substation.
By Jimmy A. |
Station 2: Jesus is made to bear his cross
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The artist depicts a man in the process of being arrested as receiving his cross.
By Roy F |
Station 3: Jesus falls
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The artist chose images of despair and heaviness imagining the weight of Jesus' pain.
By Dez |
Station 4: Jesus meets his mother
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The artist chooses images of comfort.
By Evan S. |
Station 5: Simon of Cyrene is made to bear the cross
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The artist chose images to imagine how Simon felt while walking with Jesus.
By AU |
Station 6: The women of Jerusalem weep over Jesus
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The artist chose women in various contexts to express their sadness.
By Rebecca R. |
Station 7: Jesus is stripped of his garment
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The artist chose to show all the ways humans are stripped of their dignity.
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Station 8: Jesus is nailed to the cross
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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
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There are no words and no details beside the cruelty and abandonment of that moment.
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Station 10: Jesus is taken down from the cross
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The Lamb of God has given everything for us and most of us turn our backs.
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Station 11: Jesus is placed in the tomb
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While the weeping and sadness continue, "it is over".
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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
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