Today Good Friday it was a good idea to pay a visit to the Abbey. It was full of people walking, at the church, and visiting other facilities.
I walked the Abbey Drive, fourteen Stations of the Cross line the entrance road, each recalling the suffering and death of Jesus. The statuary is from Munich, Germany, and dates to 1889. Pilgrims often walk this path in prayer, and visit the Grotto of Mary at the top of the hill.
I probably missed a couple of them where there were people praying. I did not want to bother them.
Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) Planted by FR. Bernard Sander O.S.B. 1939:
The Abbey Church is the center of life on the Hilltop:
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| Mt. Angel Abbey and Seminary |
I probably missed a couple of them where there were people praying. I did not want to bother them.
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| Jesus is sentenced to death |
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| Jesus takes the most old fashioned cross |
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| Jesus meets his mother |
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| Jesus falls for the first time |
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| Simon helps Jesus with the cross |
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| Jesus falls for the second time |
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| Veronica wipes the face of Christ |
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| Jesus comforts the daughters of Jerusalem |
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| Jesus is robbed of his clothes |
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| Jesus is crucified |
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| Jesus dies at the cross |
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| The body is taken out |
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| Jesus is laid in the grave |
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| Jesus is laid in the grave (close up) |
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| Grotto |
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| Monk's cemetery |
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| Monks' cemetery and tiny chapel (1883) |
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| The oldest building at the Abbey, a tiny chapel – the first on the Hilltop – built in 1883. |
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| Giant Sequoia |
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| View from Hilltop |
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| Abbey Church |