Today is Good Friday. The Stations of the Cross is an incredibly powerful meditation that can bring out for us those things and areas in our lives which Jesus is desiring that we understand more deeply, even though perhaps we have understood them rather plainly in times gone by.

The theme that perhaps is one of the most striking could be called the nakedness of our sin. At the Tenth Station we are called to bring to our recollection an interesting correspondance between this part of Jesus’ Holy Passion and how through it, He sought to unite His sufferings here with that caused by the instance after Adam & Eve’s disobedience where they were confronted by the nakedness of their own Fallen nature – Genesis 3 : 7.

Prior to picking & eating the fruit, they were in complete harmony with the naturalness of their bodies as God had so fashioned them. After their Fall from Grace, a great confounding occured before their very eyes since the act of picking & eating the fruit that God forbade them to even touch, let alone eat, had opened them to a conscious awareness of their own wretched state – a state which was none other than the result of their own disobedience being visible to them in plain sight. It’s not that they were supposed to feel uncomfortable at seeing their own bodies as bare as they were – no, had they remained obedient to God’s will for them and refrained from consuming the fruit, they would not have seen their nakedness in such a crude and unsightly fashion for there would not have been anything out of place to see as their remaining within the holy will of God meant that they remained shielded from seeing or visualizing anything in a distorted fashion, which by the way, only entered their reality after they had stepped outside of the spiritual canopy of protection that aligning their thoughts, decisions, and actions inside the rubric of God’s holy law of loyalty and love necessarily endowed.

Hence in His Passion, the Tenth Station shows us how Jesus presented for us a call to become more spiritually attuned in our own personal consciousness, to the lewidness that all our faults, failings, and transgressions bring into the equation of our existance and the fact that He, being perfect, was able to show forth Himself as the New Adam, the One Who would use the very substance of our fallenness, our brokenness, and transmute that for us, on our behalf, and so that the effects of these transgressions and soul wounds do not remain indelibly imprinted within us. This Station also implores us to divest ourselves of those worldly garments of concealment, those ways of perceiving life that cloud us from being able to perceive ourselves as we truly are in order for us to begin to act on those aspects of our ways which need re-configurement according to and after the likeness of God’s holiness, essentially so that our vision, both spiritual and temporal can be purified and so conformed to that of Christ.