Today, Good Friday, we made the Stations of the Cross of Nonviolent Love. We started at the Federal Building, a symbol of war spending and ended at Marquette University, the only Jesuit Catholic University in the US to host military training schools for the Army/Navy/Marines/Air Force.

The first station , Jesus is condemned to death, was at the Federal Building, a symbol of the obscene amount of money we spend to kill and destroy people in the immoral and unjust wars of the USA. The twelfth station, Jesus dies on the cross, was at Marquette University, the only university in the area that teaches ‘reflexive killing’, killing without conscience and military values taking priority over conscience.

We carried with us, besides the cross, pictures of war victims, mostly children. By words, by drum beat, by signs and pictures, our marching of the way of the cross in silence, we expressed our responsibility for war spending and teaching war that kills and injures many.

Of all the protest, marches, letters to Marquette, holding congress persons accountable, petitions we have done this probably this one prayerful event, at least for me, was the most meaningful. As we walked up Wisconsin Avenue, people around us were going on with their daily business, probably just like at the time of Jesus, where this rejected Palestinian Jew was led by the Roman Empire with other criminals to die a most tortured and painful death.

The cross is an ultimate symbol of Nonviolence, the death that must be suffered to bring new life. So today there is the Way of the Cross and, hopefully, soon the Resurrection. Below are pictures from today. Last seen the cross rested against a tree at Marquette University.

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