Foghorn Christian Books

Joan D. Chittister ~ paperback

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Book Synopsis: The Stations of the Cross, unlike many traditional private devotions-novenas, for instance-are not designed to beg God for favors or graces or special attention of any kind. They are instead simply an excursion through the hard moments of life as those periods are demonstrated in the life of Jesus himself. They remain universally popular throughout the ages not because they concentrate on suffering, surely, but because they give us a model of how to live life when our own suffering is unavoidable and life seems most impossible. Then, knowing that Jesus has gone the way of injustice, fatigue, failure and defeat before us, gives our own present difficulties both new light and new hope.