| Around and About a Catholic Church |
A Tour of Corpus Christi Church Clifton Nottingham |
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The South Transept
The South Transept provides the link between the Sacristy and the Sanctuary. There is seating here for around 70 people. On the wall of the South Transept are the last four of the Stations of the Cross.
 11. Jesus is nailed to the cross |
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
How many people are bullied in one way or another in my school, in my workplace, in my world? Do I accept violence around me? How many people are crucified daily because of their race, colour or creed, or because they don’t seem to fit in? |
| “Father into your hands I commend my spirit”.
It is too late, the damage is done. Do we say this about people and situations we have known? If so: Why did we stand by and not help? Why did we not act justly towards others? Why did we not try to work, however quietly, to lessen the violence around us? Did we walk away from the situation instead? |
 12. Jesus dies on the Cross |
 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross |
What is left? Who is left? What are people doing?
The same questions could be asked at the low points of our lives. Perhaps it is time to consider what it is that is really important to us. Who can we really count on? Will some who we thought of as friends leave us high and dry in our hour of need? |
| The journey is complete. There is nowhere else to go. This seems to be the end. The hopes, the aspirations, the expectations of Jesus’ friends were buried with Jesus on that day. Everything they had worked for seemed to have gone in the moment that the stone was rolled across the tomb. A time of hurt, of emptiness, of despair if this was indeed the end.
Jesus died that we might have eternal life. Without the Cross there is no Resurrection. |
 14. Jesus is laid in the Tomb |
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