THIRTEENTH STATION
THE BODY OF JESUS IS PLACED
IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER
PHOTOGRAPH FACED WITH FLUFFED HOTEL PILLOWS
The Rev. Thomas Faulkner, Artist

July 2003, Monrovia, Liberia. A country in the midst of civil war led by another madman professing Christ Crucified, murdering opponents and sending the National Treasury abroad. A young mother wearing a new shirt imprinted with the words United States of America cradles in her arms a dying child. Her distress is no less than was Mary’s in holding the body of her dead son Jesus. Too many weeping mothers; too many dead children; too many years of savagery... and yet we are at ease.