My Via Dolorosa
My Via Dolorosa

Author: Takamitsu Muraoka

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1524628719

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This is a collection of reflections written by the author each time after his annual voluntary teaching ministry in Asian countries, which suffered under the Japanese Imperialism and military operations in the first half of the twentieth century. The introductory chapter presents first the authors perspective as a Japanese Christian scholar on his countrys modern history as it relates to its Asian neighbours and the countries that fought with Japan during the Pacific War, and then it explains the authors theological motivation and underpinning of his teaching ministry in Asia. As an appendix, the authors reflections and reservations on the bilateral agreement recently (28.12.2015) reached between the governments of South Korea and Japan over the issue of comfort women are presented. This issue constitutes, in the authors view, a touchstone as to how seriously and sincerely Japan is going to face its war past. In the course of his visits to Asia the matter has hung heavy over the authors chest and he personally met some surviving, elderly Asian victims.

On the Via Dolorosa with Christ
On the Via Dolorosa with Christ

Author: Paul Ciholas

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780865549241

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After two millennia, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ remain the foundation of Christian faith. No matter how often the story of Easter is told and how much it is explained, we are awed by the inscrutability of God's incarnation in Christ and find ourselves caught up in an event that transcends our understanding and surrounds us in a sea of divine love that belongs to the realm of mystery. These forty mediations invite the reader to reflect on Christ's walk on the Via Dolorosa, the path of suffering that a bruised and exhausted Jesus had to trudge from the place of his condemnation to the site of his crucifixion. It is a sobering journey. It is also a holy path toward God. With the author the reader can walk from sacred place to sacred place and feel the transforming power of the presence of Christ. In this pilgrimage we encounter a tormented Judas, a bewildered peter, a transformed Thomas, and two startled disciples on the road to Emmaus. The passion story leads believers and readers through the tragic disintegration of moral and spiritual claims to a fresh reaffirmation of the promise of transfiguration and resurrection.

Via Dolorosa
Via Dolorosa

Author: Martin Shannon

Publisher: Paraclete Press

Published: 2020-01-21

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1640604677

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Based on early Christian practice, pilgrims to Jerusalem reconstructed the events of Good Friday along the “Way of Suffering,” the Via Dolorosa. The Spanish nun, Egeria, writes of her own experience with this in her fourth century Holy Week journal. In the Middle Ages, the Franciscans and Dominicans particularly picked up on the ritual, and transported it from Jerusalem to chapels and churches outside the Holy Land. If one could not make the pilgrimage to the place of Jesus’s passion, then the “place” could be brought to the pilgrim . . . even in his or her own home town. Over the centuries, the Stations of the Cross spread across Europe and the British Isles. Eventually, fourteen stations were set, with accompanying books of readings and prayers to guide the Good Friday pilgrims as they walked the way with Christ—going “with him” as he bore his cross from the court of Pilate to the hill of Golgotha, from his judgment and condemnation to his death and deposition from the cross. Allow these scriptures, meditations, and prayers to accompany you as you walk and pray the Stations of the Cross with Christ.

Road to Via Dolorosa
Road to Via Dolorosa

Author: Marie Conover

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1452086982

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Imagine being thrust back in time and suddenly finding yourself a personal friend of Jesus Christ's. Imagine the wonder of seeing His baptism firsthand, witnessing miracles and enjoying fellowship with Him. This is the experience you share with Joshua Banks in Road to Via Dolorosa. Through an unfortunate event, Joshua finds himself back in time in the Jordan Valley during the early part of Jesus' ministry. For a few unforgettable months, he follows Jesus and the disciples as he learns important lessons that will stand the test of time.

A Pilgrim's Journal
A Pilgrim's Journal

Author: Robert Faricy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1989-11

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781556122590

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A Pilgrim's Jounral is a spiritual travelogue in which the author tells us much about the union between Christian faith and living in the word, the union between grace and nature.

Via Dolorosa
Via Dolorosa

Author: David Hare

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-03-21

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 0571301223

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'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.' Via DolorosaIn 1997, after many invitations, the 50-year-old British playwright resolved finally to visit the 50-year-old State of Israel. The resulting play, written to be performed by the author himself, offers a meditation on an extraordinary trip to both Israel and the Palestinian territory, which leaves Hare questioning his own values as searchingly as the powerful beliefs of those he met. Accompanying Via Dolorosa is the 1996 lecture When Shall We Live?, which also addresses questions of art and faith. Originally given in Westminster Abbey as the Eric Symes Memorial Lecture, it attracted record correspondence when an abridged version was published in the Daily Telegraph.