It's a prayer

The stations of the cross is a prayer. So it isn't the same as just looking at the pictures and reading the words that go with it.

The stations of the cross are based in history. Jesus was made to carry the cross on which he would be put to death, all the way through Jerusalem to Calvary where he died. He was taken down and laid in a tomb.

But the point is to use this story not just as history, but as a story of suffering to allow God to touch us.

Remember: Jesus died so that we may live. This is the prayer.