By Jennifer S. Bryson, PhD, OnePeterFive, February 20, 2024
Jennifer S. Bryson, PhD, is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC and translator of Catholic works from German to English. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
To guide my Lenten reflections this year, I am using the new book The Stations of the Cross in Slow Motion: A Daily Devotion by Suzan Sammons (Sophia Institute Press, 2023). This book guides the user each day through one Station of the Cross, considering several aspects of each for three to four days at a time, except for one day each for Holy Saturday and the triumph of the Resurrection. It includes forty-seven chapters, one for each day—forty days of Lent plus seven Sundays—, moving through the Stations of the Cross at a slow pace—“in Slow Motion” as the title says (perhaps with a nod to the great “in Slow Motion” works by the late Fr. Ronald Knox?). …