Father, forgive them ...
Today you will be with me in paradise.
Woman, behold your son ...
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I thirst ...
It is accomplished ...
Into your hands I commit my spirit ...
These 'seven last words' of Jesus on the cross form the basis of this moving, stark and prayerful Lenten meditation. They convey something of the intensity and the anguish of the passion of Jesus without which, as the author says in his preface, 'with its tragedy and hopelessness, there can be no resurrection and no sense of resurrecton.'
Alan Falconer's meditations, combined with carefully selected
readings from scripture, from poetry and from prose writings,
offer a very powerful aid to following the journey of the cross.