He saw and believed

By A.Vonn Hartung

The second station places us inside the empty tomb, witnessing Peter and John’s discovery that Christ has indeed risen. The gestures speak to us—Peter’s as if to say, “Can it be?” John’s emphatic gesture says it all— “He is risen!” The shape of the burial cloth as it hangs over the edge of the sepulcher reiterates John’s expression of uplifting joy. Here, as in the first station, we see, in the bottom half of the circle, Calvary and the abyss that represents death, and the three-dimensional cross, which is the bridge from the earthly to the eternal reality.