V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee.]R. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. [Because by Thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.] Pope John Paul II From the Book of Lamentations. 3:1-2, 9, 16 I am the man who has seen affliction under the… Continue reading The Seventh Station: Jesus Falls for the Second Time
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The Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus.
V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee.]R. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. [Because by Thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.] Pope John Paul II From the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. 53:2-3 He had no form or comeliness that we should look… Continue reading The Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus.
The Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus to Carry the Cross
For the last fourteen days of Lent, I’m posting one Station of the Cross per day, taken from Pope John Paul II’s 2003 Good Friday meditations, and Pope Benedict’s 2005 Good Friday meditations, both delivered at the Colosseum. FIFTH STATION: SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS TO CARRY THE CROSS V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus… Continue reading The Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus to Carry the Cross
The Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
For the last fourteen days of Lent, I’m posting one Station of the Cross per day, taken from Pope John Paul II’s 2003 Good Friday meditations, and Pope Benedict’s 2005 Good Friday meditations, both delivered at the Colosseum. FOURTH STATION: JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore Thee, O… Continue reading The Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
The Third Station: Jesus Falls for the First Time
For the last fourteen days of Lent, I’m posting one Station of the Cross per day, taken from Pope John Paul II’s 2003 Good Friday meditations, and Pope Benedict’s 2005 Good Friday meditations, both delivered at the Colosseum. THIRD STATION: JESUS FALLS FOR THE FIRST TIME V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore… Continue reading The Third Station: Jesus Falls for the First Time
The Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
For the last fourteen days of Lent, I’m posting one Station of the Cross per day, taken from Pope John Paul II’s 2003 Good Friday meditations, and Pope Benedict’s 2005 Good Friday meditations, both delivered at the Colosseum. SECOND STATION: JESUS TAKES UP HIS CROSS V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore Thee,… Continue reading The Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
For the last fourteen days of Lent, I’m posting one Station of the Cross per day, taken from Pope John Paul II’s 2003 Good Friday meditations, and Pope Benedict’s 2005 Good Friday meditations, both delivered at the Colosseum. FIRST STATION: JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. [We adore Thee,… Continue reading The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
A Lenten Warning from the Saints
In Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis De Sales warns of a kind of false religiosity that can convince both others and ourselves that we’re right with God, when we’re not. Specifically, he warned of our tendency to “colour devotion according to our own likings and disposition”: One man sets great value on fasting,… Continue reading A Lenten Warning from the Saints
Lenten Prayer Before the Crucifix
A plenary indulgence is offered on Fridays in Lent (like today) for the Christian faithful who piously pray the below prayer in front of a Crucifix, after Communion: BEHOLD, O good and sweetest Jesus, I cast myself upon my knees in Thy sight,and with the most fervent desire of my soul I pray and beseech… Continue reading Lenten Prayer Before the Crucifix
The Raising of the Widow’s Son, and What it Says About God’s Love
Given how important today’s Gospel is, it should be much better known. After all, it involves Jesus raising a man from the dead, something which happens extremely rarely, even in the Gospels. It’s Luke 7:11-17, the raising of the widow’s son: Soon afterward He journeyed to a city called Nain, and His Disciples and a large… Continue reading The Raising of the Widow’s Son, and What it Says About God’s Love