The Tenth Station: Jesus Is Crucified

Presider: We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.
All: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

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. (Mark 15:22-24) 

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SOLDIER UNDER THE CROSS
Do you like to gamble? To listen to the click of the dice as you shake them? The excitement of gambling races through my blood. That day, as part of our pay, we were given a seamless gar­ment: the robe of the Nazarene. The soldier with me raised his sword to divide the robe, but I stopped him. "Wait. Aren't you a gambler? Let's throw dice to see who gets the whole garment. Why spoil a good piece of cloth?" And you know what? I won the prize. As I held up the robe In triumph, I looked at Jesus. I heard him say, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus wasn't concerned about losing his garment-no, he called out for his God; it was his God that he was clinging to. I watched him as he was dying and I could have sworn he nodded toward me, as If to say, "I'm glad you didn't destroy my robe. My mother made It." Probably all in my imagination, of course. Yet, I couldn't think of wearing that robe or even selling it. Instead, I gave It back to his mother. It was one of the few remembrances she had of him. I've always been a lucky guy. I was lucky to meet Jesus, even under the cross; lucky to win his garment and then to meet his mother. Did you see me that day, casting lots under the cross? 
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PRESIDER: Let us pray.
ALL: Jesus, the three hours you spent on the cross were hours of letting go
your robe to some soldier, your mother to John, and your life for the world. Teach us the difficult art of letting go, of dying dally to self so that at our Iast hour we may surrender our lives into your loving hands. Amen. 
Were you there when they crucified the Lord? 
Were you there when they crucified the Lord? 
Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble!
Were you there when they crucified the Lord? 

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