Click here to go back to the Online Chapel. Lord Jesus, I beg you to forgive me for the many times I have added. You carried him in your womb; you carried him in your arms when he was a young child. He also reveals that this is not an option: "…and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me (Matthew 10:38). The Stations of the Cross Home Page. At the thirteenth station, Jesus is taken down from the cross. STATIONS OF THE CROSS. Nothing had ever hurt me more than to see him in such pain. Help me to bear my crosses in a true spirit of resignation to your divine. As Simon takes up the cross, shoulder to shoulder with Jesus, we remember that you walked side by side with him his whole life, giving him the strength to fulfill his mission.
I had of him since they took him away. In return, through this stations of the cross, we give ourselves totally without reserve to You, renouncing the devil and all that has to do with him. Many great Saints, numerous Popes, and countless Catholics, have all enriched their spiritual lives with this powerful devotion. For instance, Jesus falling is not actually mentioned in any of the four Gospels. As his mother, how many times did you wipe his face as he looked up at you with love? Just as scripture tells us that Mary "stored all these things in her heart, " so too she stored in her heart the mystery of the redemption accomplished by her Son. We cannot know the depth of your sorrow, but we are grateful that you accepted your role in our salvation, even to the point of the unjust death of your beloved son. Mary stations of the cross roads. Today, one would be hard pressed to find a Catholic church whose walls are not adorned with fourteen stations. My Savior, thank you! Jesus' body is placed in the tomb. Scriptures also reveals that Nicodemus helped Joseph bury the body and that some of the women who followed Jesus were there as well. As the soldiers strip his garments, he is brought to the cold, vulnerable nakedness of his execution. This first attempt of Mary to perpetuate the remembrance of her Son's sufferings became, in consequence of frequent visits and improvements, a very beautiful road to which long after her death, pious Christians went to pray.
Indeed, Tradition played a large part in the Stations. This account is copied from a MS. of the sixth century. Stations of the Cross - - Kalamazoo, MI. They were also given instructions on how proceed as the foundation of the Church was laid by these first bishops. Today, as I remember him lying on the cross, with his arms outstretched, it is the sound of the hammer hitting the nails that stays with me. I have merited by my sins to die a miserable death, but Your death is my hope.
Because God is loving and merciful as well as just, He sent His only begotten Son to pay the penalty for our sins, knowing we were otherwise doomed for all eternity (John 3:16). Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, the great hymn of the church, the Stabat Mater, teaches us that you stood at the foot of the cross: "At the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful Mother weeping, close to her Son, to the last". What must it have been like for the Blessed Mother following her Son's earthly departure?
Ordered to help by the Roman soldiers, Simon did not resist, most likely fearing for his own life in light of the situation at hand. Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross. Stations of the Cross - - Richland, PA. Here and there they used to kiss the ground. This sixth station reassures us that those little acts of kindness and compassion will be rewarded. Thus she would enter the city by the Judicial Gate (per portam judiciariam), go up to Pilate's judgment hall, and kiss the places where he was scourged and crowned with thanksgiving.
Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, as your son struggles under the weight of his cross, the Roman soldiers force a bystander, Simon the Cyrenian, to help him. "The first traces of the legend of our Lady's pilgrimages in Jerusalem are of early date. Up to this point, you have been watching from the crowd. In the early morning, as dawn drew nigh, after having received holy Communion from St. John on the Lord's Mount of Sion, she went forth with her maidens and entered that great chamber which had been made ready for the Last Supper, where she meditated upon the immense boon there conferred upon the human race, looked into the deepest mysteries, and kissed the place where her Son had sat. Mary's way stations of the cross. Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time. I was walking a few steps behind Jesus when I saw him stop.
I am willing to leave sin behind and live for you alone, in. Thank you for such endless love that helps me. This done, he kneeled down once more before the tender Mother Mary, Heaven's Queen, as she was led past him in unfathomable anguish of heart; and he observed how mournfully she bore herself, and noted her burning tears and sighings and sorrowful demeanor, and addressed her in the words of the 'Salve Regina' and kissed her footsteps. Ther JHESU mett with his Modyr MarieTher sorowyd together both He and she;And ther the wymmen of JerusalemWept on CHRYST when that He cam. I took one more look at my loving son, and then walked out. Yet, very rarely have I seen my own. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. The Church so highly prizes this devotion that she has richly indulgenced it and one can receive a plenary indulgence for performing it in conformity with the norms of the Church. It was a path of bitter and painful experience. After the Ascension, when we would gather in homes for the Breaking of the Bread, I again held his broken body in my hands, now full of consolation that his promise was fulfilled: he would always be with us. He responds to their sorrow and tells them, "do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children. " At that time people will say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us! ' Jesus, in His dying moment, was still putting the needs of others before His own as He selflessly committed the care of His mother to His beloved disciple John (John 19:27). You never said such a life would.
There are, nonetheless many profound and moving prayers written for this devotion that one may use. Jesus Falls a Third Time *. Each Station touches a person's heart and mind through contemporary imagery, a profound Scripture passage, a modern reflection on Jesus' story, and an action-oriented prayer.