Everyone's Way of the Cross [Paperback]

Clarence Enzler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0877933383 | ISBN-13: 978-0877933380 | Publication Date: December 1987 | Edition: Revised

This perennially popular meditation booklet combines imaginative, full-page photos with a dialogue between Christ and the reader, urging us to carry on Christ's "unfinished business" and unite our human will with the divine will. Each mediation is an authentic application of Jesus' suffering to our personal lives. Ideal for either private devotion of public Stations of the Cross, for adult parish Lenten programs, and high school use.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press; Revised edition (December 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877933383
• ISBN-13: 978-0877933380
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and Meaningful, March 13, 2006

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Steven R. McEvoy "MCWPP" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everyone's Way of the Cross (Paperback)

This is the edition I have been using for years. It was originally published as `everyman's way of the cross' and has sold over 2 million copies. The photo's accompanying each meditation are black and white photo's of everyday life; an apartment building someone in a library, an old man sitting in a park. These down to earth pictures help bring the meditations home to today and now.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This way of the Cross touches me deeply., September 6, 2002

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"seannmc" (Duluth, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyone's Way of the Cross (Paperback)

It seems to be Clarance Ensler's style to be able to speak well taking the point of view of Christ speaking to us. He did so well in "My Other Self", and that's the tone of this Way of the Cross.

At the begining, he states "My Mass wasn't finished until I crowned it with my death. Your Mass isn't finished until you crown it with your life."

In each station, he draws out some area, some idea in our life that we can offer as a sacarafice to God, from accepting the suffering of our loved ones, to accepting our own death. How the bordom and trials of work can be a fitting offering to God. In this prayer, our lives become tied intimately to Christ's.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice contemporary version, August 24, 2000

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everyone's Way of the Cross (Paperback)

Everyone's way of the cross is a version that works very well as an individual devotion - in contrast to forms that require a leader/everyone else diachotomy. However, it can be used by a group in a two voice manner - one voice of Jesus, the other the voice of human response.

This version is based upon the 14 traditional stations. Each station's text is accompanied by a photo that in some manner reflects the common suffering of mankind - age, loneliness, brokenness .... This is a very simple, poetic, meditative version of the Way of the Cross. An example of the human response at the 4th station (Jesus meets his Mother): "To carry my cross after you, / I, too, must stand and watch / the sufferings of my dear ones - / the heartaches, sicknesses and grief / of those I love."