Universalis

Wednesday 4 April 2007

11th Station - Jesus is nailed to the cross

It is hard to imagine the pain that Jesus must have endured being nailed to the cross. As Bishop Walsham How expresses it so well:

I sometimes think about the cross,
and shut my eyes and try to see
the cruel nails and crown of thorns,
and Jesus crucified for me.

I like the emphasis on Jesus being crucified, not just for the sins of the world, but for me!

2 comments:

John the organist said...

It is a thing most wonderful - a great hymn by a great bishop who always travelled on the bus so that he met his people! I often used to sing it to the children when they were going to sleep.

Peter Simpson said...

As a Yorkshireman, I have a soft spot for this former Bishop of Wakefield! Bishop Howe wrote some other splendid hymns. I'm rather fond of 'O Jesu, thou art standing outside the fast-closed door' - but I suppose his greatest hymn is 'For all the Saints' - though we mustn't sing it until Lent is over!

You will be pleased to learn that I intend to make further use of 'It is a thing most wonderful' in the next station.