06. Sep 2025

Kláster Hradiště -Pisková Lhota

Photo 1: Quite often in churches or along walkways I will see such Ways of the Cross which depict fourteen events that occurred as Jesus walked his way to the cross and was crucified. This particular one that I saw today on a path through the woods had deep cuttings on each picture. Especially the name of Jesus and his face were carved into. Again someone will have some explaining to do when they stand before the resurrected Lord of heaven and earth. I then thought of what Sherry Sabella had said to me who had been a missionary with her late husband Jim in the Czech Republic. She said that this region of the Czech Republic was particularly Gospel resistant, having been hardend through the decades of communistic and athiestic and now secular thinking. Obvoiusly there are those who care not to hear and understand the message of why Jesus went to the cross and what it means for us.

Photo 2: It is starting to look like fall...

Photo 3: A picture of St. James over the back door of a St. James Church in Bakov nad Jizerou. I kind of look like him when I wear my rain hat and poncho except I do not have a beard and walk with two trekking sticks.

Photo 4: I was hoping to find a dry place to sit for my lunch break. The plastic chair was cracked, but it held me. I had a nice view of the river, was secluded in the woods away from traffic and could even hang up my poncho to dry.

Photo 5: The fortress city of Mladá Boleslav.