Name: THE SIXTH STATION OF THE CROSS - VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS by JOHN CARTÉE Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
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THE SIXTH STATION OF THE CROSS - VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS
by JOHN CARTÉE Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Title THE SIXTH STATION OF THE CROSS - VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS

Artist JOHN CARTÉE

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer JOHN CARTÉE

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 7

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher John Cartée

Level 5

Product ID 1655837

Genre Sacred Religious Christian Easter Lent

Instruments Piano

Product Description

The Sixth Station of The Cross - Veronica wipes the face of Jesus for solo piano, is the sixth movement of a prayerful devotion on The Stations of the Cross, referring to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. The music is characterized by recurring or independent themes that appear throughout the entire piano cycle of 15 pieces or movements entitled The Stations of the Cross for Solo Piano by John Cartée.

The Plainchant Hodie Christus Natus Est (Today Christ is Born) inspired this movement. It is sung to celebrate the Nativity, the birth of Jesus. It is adapted here as a lullaby to represent the loving and tender affection that Jesus receives from a woman called Veronica, who wiped his face with her veil. This merciful act offered him a little respite from the blood and sweat that trickled down onto his face and eyes from the injury sustained by the crown of thorns on his head and his exhaustion. This plainchant lullaby is also presented in Movement 12 Jesus Dies on The Cross when we hear the same lullaby being sung in the heart of his Mother Mary.

The piano plays the lullaby using both hands for the melody and also for the accompaniment. The melody is played two octaves apart allowing for a rich element to interject in between. Veronica is this rich element wiping Jesus' tearful and blood stained face since he is now helpless and completely dependent. The plainchant lullaby is sung to offer comfort to Jesus, just like he would have received as a child from his Mother Mary and foster father Saint Joseph in Bethlehem thirty-three years earlier.

I am searching for you and see your veil. Are you hiding behind it? Heal this wound of love. I long to be wrapped in it, beside you, and sing you a lullaby. Let your tears become clouds and rain on me.
John Cartée

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