Religious Education 

Journey to Jerusalem Artscape

The Stations of the Cross depict Jesus Christ’s journey on the day of his crucifixion. Stations of the Cross feature prominently in Western Christian churches, often displayed as paintings, carvings or statues. The stations are based on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem symbolising the route that Jesus took to Mount Calvary, where he was crucified. The Journey to Jerusalem is Holy Rosary’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ designed to enable students, families and parishioners to recall Jesus’ journey and apply it to a modern context.

This year we will present the Journey to Jerusalem as an artscape, using a mosaic of artwork representing each station. Each class has read, analysed and discussed the themes  and explored many different artistic representations of the scripture . From there, students have created their own small artwork which will be joined to form a larger mosaic artwork.

These artworks will be displayed in the church for the Holy Rosary community to view before and during Easter. Accompanying each photograph is a title, prayer and student wonderings. Our classes have created some exceptional pieces of art and we highly recommend you viewing them. 

Our students will begin visiting the artscape from Friday 27th March. Families are welcome to view Journey to Jerusalem on;

Families are also welcome to view Journey to Jerusalem during Easter. 

These are Stations of the Cross on the walls of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. There are 14 Stations, 9 outside and the final 5 inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Calvary).

Links:

Manaini's story

https://www.projectcompassion.org.au/stories/manainis-story

Project Compassion

https://www.projectcompassion.org.au/

Sarah, Religious Education Leader