Holy Trinity students enact the final days of Jesus
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Holy Trinity high school students will present the Living Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. Wednesday, a program that will immerse the audience in the final steps Jesus took to the cross. A reception will follow in the church fellowship hall.
“It’s given me a deeper understanding of what Jesus went through,” said Nakia Mohr. “At the end, I think, it was really sad for me.”
Mohr will be the English language narrator, while Nahomey Reyes will be the Spanish narrator.
“But there is hope,” added Lydia Cook, who is cast as Mary, mother of Jesus. “Jesus rises again at Easter.”
Directing the 40 students who make up the cast and choir is Claire Gilbert, a Huron native now teaching math at the Huron Middle School.
“There are 14 Stations of the Cross. The actors walk through each station, act it out, then freeze and the narrator goes on explaining the story,” Gilbert said. “It’s as if you were standing there watching it. You see how Jesus was probably feeling. How amazing it is that he died like that to save us all.”
The Stations begin with Pontius Pilate condemning Jesus to death and follows his stumbling walk as he carries the heavy cross. “He meets the weeping women of Jerusalem, who are very distraught,” Gilbert says. “Jesus tells them not to cry, because he knows he will come back in three days. If they want to cry, cry for people that aren’t willing to accept him as Lord and Savior.”
At the final station, where Jesus is laid in the tomb and the stone is rolled into place, there is no sound except the choir softly singing. The actors will quietly walk out first, followed by the now silent choir and then the audience.
“I just hope that people gain more of an understanding of how intense the whole event was,” Gilbert added.
Portraying Jesus in the final hours of his life has been eye-opening, said Landon Schutt, who accepted the role after another student was unable to.
“I’m a bit nervous, I only had one practice,” Schutt said. “I feel like it’s an important role. I hope people can visualize it more and kind of understand what he went through and why he did it,”
Schutt said. “I think he did it because he loves us very much.”
