Stations of the Cross 2023 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church

SOLO ART SHOW

OPENING RECEPTION: February 24th, 7-9 PM

During Easter, St. Thomas Episcopal Church will be hosting an art exhibition by mixed-media collage artist, Dee Perconti. It’s a new, unique, colorful and breathtaking series. In this series, Dee intertwines different cultural traditions sharing the same faith.

As stated in Wikipedia, The Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross, also known as the Way of Sorrows or the Via Crucis, refers to a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew out of imitations of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, a traditional processional route symbolizing the actual path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary. The objective of the stations is to help the Christian faithful to make a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation of the Passion of Christ. It has become one of the most popular devotions and the stations can be found in many Western Christian churches.

Commonly, a series of 14 images will be arranged in numbered order along a path, along which worshippers—individually or in a procession—move in order, stopping at each station to say prayers and engage in reflections associated with that station.