Icons of sorrow, they seem absorbed in their own suffering. There is a green lining of hope traversing their figures and that of the Suffering Servant. Eventually, his message will reach their senses, but even now his knees are buckling under the weight of a cross that has never been heavier. Identification Frequently, suffering leads to avoidance, and we make dolor our sole companion. Wrapping ourselves within an impenetrable shroud of self-pity, we retreat from life.
Human hardship is always a shared experience.
Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. Representation Mountains are no longer the only obstacles on the Way of the Cross. The Suffering Servant himself has become a mountain and an obstacle on his road. He is a mountain of sorrows, a pitiful and amorphous clump of human misery. His abasement is sealed with the pitiless sign of his mission the cross.