Today's Way of the Cross

The shops and the commercialization;

Via Dolorosa, Old Jerusalem

the guns and knives;
the poverty and oppression;
the cars going along the narrow lanes;
the division among the Christian Churches 
- these were what I named as aspects of today's Way of the Cross as I walked the Via Dolorosa within the walls of Old Jerusalem only last October.

It struck me how the way was narrow, windy and not so long.  Still it is not the city of Jesus' time but the city built over history after its destruction by the Romans.  Who knows what it was like then?  Still you know that this was where it happened and you get the feel for what happened at the time and who was there. 

Jesus' Way of the Cross was real.
 So is ours but in different and more contemporary ways.