Thirteenth Station: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. I always breathe a sigh of relief when, during the Good Friday liturgy, we reach this line: the worst is over. Jesus has...
Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. The End Can you imagine how the apostles and followers of Christ felt when He breathed His last breath? This was the end, the end of a journey, the end of a life, the end...
Gethsemane
Your human nature gripped by fear Though union'd with Divinity You grasp at root, at dust, at stone Lor Jesus, on Your knees, alone. The night so still, an eerie glow interrupts shadows cast by the moon No wind to sift through leaves below Stark silence since...
Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. Meditations on the Wounds of Christ The Head of Christ~ The Head of Christ, which is eternally adorned with the glorious halo of His Father's Love, consented to be...
Tenth Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. Ever since the Fall, nakedness has been associated with shame. In the beginning it was not so. St John Paul II reminded us in his catechesis sessions that "Original Man"Â ...
Ninth Station: Jesus Falls for the Third Time
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. Oh Jesus! You are so close to the end, and yet You fall this third time. By now, Your strength is gone. Your body is crumpled on the ground, blood mixing with the dirt....
Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. I slept, but with my heart awake To hear His footsteps passing by; His hair was damp with blood and sweat. He had no looks to draw the eye, Flayed bare and crowned with...
Feast of the Annunciation
Shape us in the likeness of the divine nature of our Redeemer, Whom we believe to be true God and true Man, since it was Your Will, Lord God, that He, Your Word, should take to Himself our human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Through the same Christ...
Walking on Water
Through Storms to His Heart. By Guadalupana. I have been out of religious life for almost four years and was in religious life for almost three years, with it being discerned by the council at my religious community that I had been called there but that I was not...
Seventh Station: Jesus Falls for the Second Time
We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You. Because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world. This second fall serves as a powerful reminder that we follow both a human and a divine Savior. Neither He nor we are immune from suffering in this life. Take a moment...
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