Poster Set: A Way of the Cross for Children

Ten modern and colourful posters especially created for the younger person by Rachel Mabey.

For many hundreds of years, the friends of Jesus have held a service called the Way of the Cross. Some have been able to do this in Jerusalem itself where Jesus first carried the cross. Others, who were not able to get to Jerusalem, have followed this practice in their churches, schools or in their homes.

They have imagined themselves following Jesus on his last journey to his death, and stopping at various places on the way to think about him. These posters imagined ten such places.

WHY ONLY TEN STATIONS OF THE CROSS? Traditionally there has been 14 Stations of the Cross and sometimes the Resurrection of Christ is added to make a fifteenth. However, the author of the text for the book, 'A Way of the Cross for Children', (from which these images are related) wanted to go back to the roots of the early Christian Church and only include the Stations from the Gospel texts.