Why He Weeps
I’d heard stories of it. Retreat Road down in Cochrane, Alberta. They have a monastery there. Robes and everything. But their real claim to fame is the massive statue of Christ being crucified in the woods. I’ve been there a few times. Walked up the path with all the smaller statues beside the path. There was a baby, a group of people reaching towards Jesus, all those things, finally culminating in this 20-foot tall cross with Jesus hanging from it. What gets a lot of people though, is that Jesus is weeping on the cross. Nobody can seem to figure out why. Weeping is not the action of a Lord and Saviour.
Never.
Unthinkable.
I’ve been a few times during the day. It’s an interesting walk. Even for the Atheist like myself, it is still awe-inspiring. I happened to notice lights though, beneath all the statues. I asked around, and they do light the path up at night. I asked if I could come back then, but they told me the path would be closed. No one would tell me why.
Not one to follow rules, I returned that night, and made my way over the fence and onto the path. As I walked along the winding route to the large statue, I passed the smaller statues. They seemed different. It was the angle the light hit them. The statue of the baby … it’s eyes were all sunken in, and the shadows seemed to make its fingers end in claws. The statue of the people reaching towards Jesus, they looked dead, reaching towards Jesus with the shadows casting a look of horror on his face. Something about them really unsettled me, but it was on a deeper level than just what they depicted now. I reached the statue of Jesus and gazed up at his face. I stood there for what felt like hours, just wondering why he was weeping. What for? What cause?
I heard the whispers and rustling of the trees on all sides of me long before I saw anything. I gazed up at Jesus, looked deep into those stone eyes, and understood.
That night, he was weeping for me.
—
Credited to TheCoffinDancer.
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An all too beautiful ending :)
Delicious.
I’ve eaten many servings of pasta, but I felt compelled to comment on this one.
My interpretation of the ending? Jesus wept for the atheist, because the atheist somehow submitted himself to the killer statues and would become one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYRvaD-xkQ&feature=related
Odd story. I.M.O., I think he was either:
A. Realized his mistakes as he is a man,
or
B. He understood what life and our existence truly means,
or
C. An Angel of Death visited him.
Take your pick.
Awesome, except for the ‘not the actions of a Lord and savior’ issue. Creepy in a subtle way. 8/10
this must be the place.
http://www.mountstfrancis.ca/serenitytwilight.html
Fucking loved it.
when i started to read it, i kinda was dissapointed in the religious theme. however…..amazing ending! bam!
Very nummy pasta! 10/10
The part that makes it unnerving for me is that I live in Calgary, Alberta, about 40 minutes from cochrane. :(
First
Wasn\’t he weeping because the guy was about to get killed by the things that \"made sounds in the bushes\"?
-_-
The build up was great, but I was expecting more with the end.
nomnomnom
This was real tasty pasta. Loved the end. If you really don’t understand the it, maybe you should go back to the self explanatory section.
To all the people irritated by the whole “Jesus Wept” vs “Not the actions of a lord and savior” issue, might I just point out one thing:
Many christians follow by blind faith, and don’t pay much attention to the book their faith is based on except to justify what they believe. As a christian, I’ve long given up on people getting their own religion right.
i didn’t get it
@Flash37: *points to the sentence where he says he is an atheist*
Yeah, research fail.
Meh. Vagueness makes pasta bland. I was not impressed.
Not so much creepy as it was beautiful, and I’m not an excessively religious person.
*blinks*
*facepalms*
*sighs*
*walks away and returns with a Bible*
*opens page and points to the words “Jesus wept”*
*points to the sentence “Weeping is not the action of a Lord and Saviour”*
0/10
this creepy pasta made my pussy moist
Delicious pasta. Gets a 8/10!
Dont mean to sound like a tool ar anything but… Can someone explain this to me?
Someone killed the narrator. Jesus was crying because he wasn’t the only one who broke the rules and ended up being murdered in the night.
Nice. I had thought that I was immune to creepypasta. This was a refreshing slap in the face. Thankyou, Coffin.
Fear the Darkness
-Nex
lol as an Albertan who’s been in the area many times, there is no such thing. i just couldn’t take it seriously.
I think the reason he is weeping is either because he feels the narrator is not “saved” or something is rustling in the woods to get him.
That is all.
No. Definitely not good. Not that the author is still around on this site to care….. but I hated it.
I think I have an explanation for the ending. The shadows bouncing of things to make faces, very elaborate, too elaborate to be a coincedence. The monks have put lights to illuminate the statues yet nobody is allowed there at night, that instantly make the unfortunate person visiting the place want to see it at night. The “monks” wait for a person to show up and… That is left for the reader to decide; but what IS important is that the statue of Jesus is always weeping (it’s a statue) indicating that they have done this time and time again. The story could have been made better by the statue of Jesus looking almost happy in the day time but at the night it looked as though he was weeping.
8/10 Great story not that creepy but nonetheless, a good story.
On a side not, there is a famous sentance in the bible “Jesus wept.” so all this talk about the lord not crying is rather silly.
I live in Cochrane and have walked that path multiple time day night drunk sober not once did i see or hear anything
whereis
theark
Whoever figures out the extremely vague reference gets an cookie.
umm, not that I’m religious or anything, but I’m pretty sure the Bible says that Jesus wept several times throughout his life… I think I’d weep too if I was nailed to a piece of wood… I would check your references before writing things like “weeping is not the action of a Lord and Saviour”
Maybe it didn’t mean so much to me because I know that the shortest verse in the bible is one of the most powerful:
He wept.