Station 13
The Body of Jesus is Placed in the Arms of His Mother
We bear witness to natural disasters and Earth’s warmest climate over the last three years.
All you who pass by, behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow. My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the downfall of my people. “Do not call me Naomi (which means Pleasant), call me Mara (which means Bitter); for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.”
“what were you doing
when the world fell apart?
when it separated itself from itself
like an orange
when the whole transformed back into segments
then chunks
then pieces
parts
then molecules
atoms
then
where were you
when the world we knew
deserted us and said
no
no i cannot hold it together any longer.”
– Camille Yameen
Let us pray.
Christ, whose bitter agony was watched from afar by women: Enable us to follow the example of their persistent love; That, being steadfast in the face of horror, We may also know the place of resurrection, In your name. Amen