Poetry, prayers, art and scripture meditations come together to create a
reflective guide for personal and corporate devotion on the events at
the heart of the Christian story from a contemporary, urban perspective.
Focusing the death and resurrection of Christ, this is suitable for
year-round use as an alternative form of the Stations of the Cross, but
also with a special significance for Holy Week and Easter.
Arranged in 14 sections, reflections by Joanne Grenfell and sonnets by
Adam Atkinson explore discipleship in today’s world, touching on
contemporary themes such as identity, truth telling, violence, abuse,
racism, and belonging in relation to being a follower of Jesus. Each is
powerfully illustrated with original paintings by artist Ali Mulroy. The
prayers are written in the first person as a devotional response to all
that has gone before and each opens with a line from a fresh rendering
of the Lenten Prose.
The book springs from a series of talks given at St Paul’s Cathedral in
Holy Week 2023.