Way of the Cross as the Metaphor of Evanescence

Way of the Cross contains the last moments of Jesus’s life. It begins with the judgment and ends when
the body is entombed.
This story of Jesus’s death can also be seen like a picture that shows human’s life. Existential problems
are written in Way of the Cross next to religious because of particular God’s presence in human being.
The evanescence is one of those issues, which are analysed by the authors of reflections fulfilling structure
of 14 episodes that create Jesus way to Calvary.
The idea of this article is to show and analyse the examples of consideration the death and mourning
taken from contemporary Way of the Cross texts. The analysis of them leads to conclusion that human
looks for a confrontation with the picture of evanescence. This experience helps people to understand
their nature which nowadays is displaced by society.