A Cruce Salus Art Exhibits

A Cruce Salus - "From the Cross Comes Salvation."

Annually, during Holy Week
Local artists reflect upon and respond to the stations of the cross

LivingStone Monastery hosts an annual A Cruce Salus art exhibit during "Holy Week," the week preceding Easter Sunday. The exhibits change each year and feature local artists' responses to the Stations of the Cross, the fifteen traditional incidents highlighted in Christ's journey from his troubled prayer in the Garden of Olives to his resurrection from the dead. Admission is free and open to the community.

Artists are given the freedom to respond within the artistic medium of their choice. Each year the exhibit opens on Palm Sunday evening with a reception with the artists from 7-8:30 p.m. The reception will include light fare and desserts. During Holy Week (Monday-Saturday), the exhibit remains open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tours are self-guided with an explanatory program provided by a host. Visitors are able to end with a time of meditation or reflection in LivingStone's public Prayer Chapel.

VIRTUAL TOURS OF PAST EXHIBITS
A Cruce Salus 2008
A Cruce Salus 2007
A Cruce Salus 2006

Stations of the Cross Used for the Exhibits

1. Jesus prays in the Garden of Olives
2. Jesus is betrayed by Judas
3. Jesus is condemned to death by the Sanhedrin
4. Jesus is denied by Peter
5. Jesus is judged by Pilate
6. Jesus is flogged and crowned with thorns
7. Jesus carries his cross
8. Jesus is helped by Simon of Cyrene
9. Jesus encounters the women of Jerusalem
10. Jesus is crucified
11. Jesus promises to share his reign with the good thief
12. Jesus' mother and disciple stand by his cross
13. Jesus dies on the cross
14. Jesus is placed in the tomb
15. Jesus is raised from the dead

Stations & Scriptures

They came to a place named Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." He took with him Peter, James and John, and began to be troubled and distressed. Then he said to them, "My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch." He advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass by him; he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will." Mark 14:32-36

Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests, the scribes and the elders. His betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying, "The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him and lead him away securely." He came and immediately went over to him and said, "Rabbi." And he kissed him. At this they laid hands on him and arrested him. Mark 14:43-46

The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none. The high priest rose before the assembly and questioned Jesus, saying, "Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?" But he was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, "Are you the Messiah, the son of the Blessed One?" Then Jesus answered, "I am;" and "you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven." At that the high priest tore his garments and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?" Mark 14:55, 60-63

While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came along. Seeing Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, "You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus." But he denied it, saying, "I neither know or understand what you are talking about." So he went out into the outer court. Another maid saw him and began to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them." Once again he denied it. A little later the bystanders said to Peter once more, "Surely you are one of them; for you too are a Galilean." He began to curse and to swear, "I do not know this man about whom you are talking." And immediately a cock crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice you will deny me three times." He broke down and wept. Mark 14:66-72

On the occasion of the Passover feast Pilate used to release one prisoner whom they requested. Pilate said, "Do you want me to release Jesus to you?" For he knew that it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed him over. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead. Pilate again said to them in reply, "Then what do you want me to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?" They shouted again, "Crucify him." Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" They only shouted the louder, "Crucify him." So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged, handed him over to be crucified. Mark 15:1, 6-15

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck him repeatedly. John 19:1-3

Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. John 19:16-17

As they went out, they pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.� Mark 15:21

A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him. Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children." Luke 23:27-28

They brought him to the place of Golgotha (which is translated Place of the Skull). They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it. Then they crucified him and divided his garments by casting lots for them to see what each should take. It was the third hour when they crucified him. And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.� Mark 15:22-24, 27

Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us." The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, "Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." He replied to him, "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Luke 23:33, 39-43

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.� John 19:25-27

At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Some of the bystanders who heard it said, "Look, he is calling Elijah." One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down." Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.� Mark 15:33-37

On the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a distinguished member of the council, who was himself awaiting the kingdom of God... courageously went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate was amazed that he was already dead. He summoned the centurion and asked him if Jesus had already died. And when he learned of it from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. Having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb. Mark 15:42-46

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. They were saying to one another, "Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back; it was very large. On entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe, and they were utterly amazed. He said to them, "Do not be amazed! You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him."� Mark 16:1-6