1. It Is With You That We Journey Windows Media  Real Player
2. Song Of The Suffering Servant
3. O Beautiful One Windows Media   Real Player
4. Bethany Windows Media   Real Player
5. Refreshing Our Strength
6. Pax Amor Christi
7. Come Now Windows Media   Real Player
8. Your Loving Will
9. Miriam's Lullaby/Lament Windows Media   Real Player
10. Song In The Wilderness
11. Now We Follow Jesus Windows Media   Real Player
12. The Reproaches
13. O Jesus Joy Windows Media   Real Player
14. Hail Cross Windows Media   Real Player
    
    14 Selections
    Total time 59:59
    
    Lyrics available for viewing here.
    

Stations: starting places, ports of call, junctures and stops along the way. In the Christian tradition fourteen stations sign The Way of the Cross, and have become a devotional itinerary etched in the hearts of disciples who seek to follow Jesus on an arduous and glorious path of transformation. During the season of Lent, Christians set out again and again on this paschal journey, and by means of spiritual practice and liturgical celebration, trace ever more deeply the pattern of christic renewal on their own experience of being. In great cultic circles we sing aloud our passionate hymns of acclamation; in the solitude of our hearts we chant our most intimate prayers for reconciliation, healing and rebirth. We sing because we are alive; we sing to become more alive, by raising up all the dying in which new life has its source. These are the songs of one such paschal community.

For over a quarter of a century, Evelyn Avoglia and Kathleen Deignan, C.N.D. have composed songs for worship and devotion drawn from the rich resources of the Christian experience. This selection draws from the repertoire for Holy Week sung by Schola at the Benedictine Grange, a liturgical community in West Redding, CT. Each song is a station, a contemplative moment of the paschal journey where we find ourselves in the company of familiar icons of passiontide: Simon the Cyrenean, the family at Bethany, the women of Jerusalem, the outlaws of Calvary. We sing with Mary at the foot of the cross as she keens her final lullaby, a mother's lament which paradoxically echoes the empowering song her son first heard at his baptism as Abba God's anointing anthem. We sing the songs of the Suffering Servant, in whose passion we see reflected our own. And we sing the songs of Jesus, the beautiful icon of transformed humanity, who incarnates for us the energy of resurrection at work in all our passionate strivings for being. May these songs be a blessing to enchant us on our paschal journey, so we may bear the cross of our own existence with a deeper sense of its power to raise us up in Christ to fullness of life. Come now, let us be on our way.

-Kathleen Deignan, CND