Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

Silent darkness
Stillness unbroken
Sadness sealing
Waiting for the Song


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus is Taken Down From the Cross

Pain without wound
Nothing to balm
Nothing to bind
A painful calm
Mother's heart pruned



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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Dies on the Cross

Song of Life, on dead air
Living Bread on a tree so bare
The world is silent standing there
Our humble God is dead
Broken and bloody red
Who hears what He last said?


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

Crude iron and heavy wood
Traps the eternal beauty and grace
Slowly kills perfect loving good
Pain has marred His glorious Face
Pound pound pound the mallet hits
Ptah ptah ptah the sinner spits


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus is Stripped of His Clothes

The World is cruel
Eats up fools
God is love
Embraces us
Does not lie


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Falls a Third Time

On the ground, in the dirt
Lies a man who is hurt
Lies us all who are in pain
For us He fell again


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Comforts the Women of Jerusalem

I am blind and a fool
Caught in fear, sadness, and pain
Yet you send your Spirit to let me cry out
And your Grace to give me peace in your name

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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Falls a Second Time

Bloodied, spat on, broken, frail
This is the Lord we love and hail
This is the Master who calms the gale
And a fall is not the end of the tale


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Joshua Fahey

Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus

True courage is silent and acts
Even while all else attacks
In Love, under Truth charity speaks unafraid
Kindness beautifully prayed


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Joshua Fahey

Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross

A bee once sang to a dandelion
Of great love as he was flyin'
Toward the work of the fragile flower
And as a friend he lent his power

Lord you asked for my fragile aid
In graceful honor, love has obeyed


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Meets His Mother

Why of all the pains you had already suffered
How did you have the strength to weather this
To see your pain reflected back in her eyes


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Falls the First Time

Greatest God assumed our frailty
Glory silent before our cruelty
Heaven silent, senses silent, fallen silently
Our liberty


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Embraces the Cross

To those unable to raise their head
He bent his body down instead
Lifted the weight the world put in place
To give us freedom, in His space


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Joshua Fahey

Jesus is Condemned

Insult and injustice filed
Silence, meekness, quiet, mild
What the World cannot grasp
Is put into the iron's clasp


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Joshua Fahey

Stations X-XIV

Life stripped bare, before the tree

The noble tree of life

Without care or decency

We give Him so much strife

Life nailed there, upon the tree

The noble tree of life

Bloodied, bare, and suffering

We give Him so much strife

Death claims Life, upon the tree

Blood pours out for all

Death has won on calvary

Life takes mankind’s fall

A body plucked from the tree

The noble tree of life

A mother buckled on her knee

Crying out her strife

Life wanders into the tomb

Three days into deathly doom

Three days behind a heavy stone

On the third, Death has flown

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Joshua Fahey 

Stations VI-IX

Life wanders though the body’s worn

Though the mind’s peace has been shorn

Veronica sees the suffering pace

And gives her care to wipe His face

Life falters once again that morn

Upon a body bruised and torn

And once again bears the weight

And walks the path narrow, straight

Life wanders where the women mourn

And asks not to weep for Him forlorn

But weep for themselves, for their kin

Who have long been subject to sin

Life falters a final time that morn

A final rising to the cross is borne

And finally comes to calvary

Life wanders to patiently

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Joshua Fahey 

Stations I-V

Life wanders where people scorn
Where people kill what has been born
One born (yet not born) who will die
Condemned by Pilate's slothful lie

Life wanders under burden's borne
On wood that deathly pains adorn
The innocent that gladly bears
Our cruel hearts and sinful wares

Life falters once upon that morn
And stumbles onto hands so worn
Yet once again upon His feet
Life goes on without defeat

Life's warm berth for nine months borne
Obedient soul to Gabriel's horn
O'er thirty years has watched His way
With sword in heart watches today

Life has friends e'en when forlorn
Who will lighten what one has borne
And steady the sway and heft the load
Simon keeps straight Life's road


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Joshua Fahey

Fourteenth Station

Jesus is laid in the tomb.

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Joshua Fahey

Thirteenth Station

Jesus' body is taken down from the cross

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Joshua Fahey

Twelve Station

Jesus dies.

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Joshua Fahey