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8 lut 2024 · The Stations of the Cross refer to depictions of the events of the Passion of Christ and the prayers and rituals associated with these, to remind us of Jesus’ death and sacrifice to save us from sin.
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. All: Because by your holy cross You have redeemed the world. Jesus, as you carry your cross you see a group of women along the road. As you pass by you see they are sad. You stop to spend a moment with them, to offer them some encouragement.
Jesus, carrying his cross on the way to Calvary, turns to speak to the women accompanying him (Luke 23:27-31). The scene is more complex than it looks. Who is comforting whom? The women are encouraging Jesus in his suffering, and he is bracing them for what they will have to face themselves.
16 kwi 2019 · The meeting with the women of Jerusalem that gives us the eighth Station is mentioned only by Luke. If he is the evangelist most concerned with conveying compassion and mercy to his readers, then this episode serves that aim. Even in the midst of his own ordeal, Jesus takes the time to address others in distress.
EIGHTH STATION. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, who weep for him. V. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. From the Gospel according to Luke 23:27-28. And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
4 dni temu · MEDITATION. Hearing Jesus reproach the women of Jerusalem who follow him and weep for him ought to make us reflect. How should we understand his words? Are they not directed at a piety which is...
We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world. As Jesus draws closer to the place of execution, he encounters the women of Jerusalem weeping for him.
