On Sunday the 4th of May we met at Nick and Anne’s house for a change. In contrast to the usual coffee, muffins and boisterous chats, singing or drumming before the start of the session we picked up candles to light at the altar and sat in quiet contemplation on the carpet.

Andrew started with a quote from a book “Jesus is not a typical superhero … defeated, executed and abandoned … (his) message is radical peace and non-violence” and a reading from Mark 15. Then Angela led us through a meditation session around the walk to Golgotha with Jesus. We each picked to role play in our own imaginations. We chose one of: Women with Mary, Disciples, Simon of Cyrene or Roman Soldiers. Each of these roles had a reading or two from the Bible.
We walked with Jesus to the hill of Golgotha while Angela asked us to examine where we were from, how long we had known Jesus, his miracles and his teachings, what we felt as we saw him walk up the hill, how it affected us to see him nailed to his cross, mocked, jeered at, fed vinegar, die …

We each shared our experience and talked about our thoughts on Jesus’ life and death along with a story about the followers that left and formed a hidden community in honour of Jesus’ life. From there we each found a physical gesture or routine to express a thought, idea, feeling or word and danced them in a group movement exercise. We rounded off with a Taize song “Jesus remember me”.