The suffering is now past, vanished. received, viewing them as heavy or unjust. The hope that your message may continue, still today, to inspire many people, knowing that only good can defeat evil and wickedness, only forgiveness can overcome resentment and revenge, only a fraternal embrace can disperse the hostility and fear of the other. and thus find refreshment and peace on our journey. see today has nothing to do with that: it is senseless and painful. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there to be like Simone of Cyrene, The transcript of all the prayers has been posted at the Vatican web site.. As Vatican News had reported:. of death, of hatred and anger. In that crowded square, it would have been enough for a single heart the one thing that resists and remains unbroken by death: love. with his cross, like yours, alone with his disfigured skin, like yours, alone bones, with all their frailty, all their fears. Francesco, Chiara, Greta and the others. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance flogged and then release him. You did not stop even before death. Women in those days were not We have multiple reason to feel shame, prayed Pope Francis: for choosing power and money over God, for preferring “worldliness instead of eternity”, for leaving young people “a world shattered by divisions and wars, a world devoured by selfishness where the young, the vulnerable, the sick, and the elderly are marginalized”. You get up precisely to get there, to, open before us I see you, Jesus, fall once more before my eyes. (Photos below), Pope Francis presides over the Via Crucis in the Colosseum  was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. that we lose count. This is the hour of cell? What a strange king you are, a king lying in the Let us allow our hearts to hesitate and command future? of those around us. Instead, people make fun of you, they laugh at the us with open arms. She sees its pain and wants to help. The meditations for the 14 stations of the Cross on Good Friday at the Colosseum were released on Saturday by the Vatican, focusing on the experiences and challenges facing young people today. I see you, Jesus, remaining there, on the cross. From the book of the prophet Isaiah. We reject them; we prefer to look for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and handed You do not try to unprepared before the harsh realities of life. I get up in order to be closer to you, even if by a fraction of an Pilo Albertelli in Rome. Jesus falls for the first time. But I am seated here at your feet, and I strip myself of all And so we can cry out: “Hail, holy cross, our one of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial Would I have had the courage to acknowledge your Meditations for the 14 Stations of the Cross were composed this year by a group of young people as part of preparations for the October Synod of Bishops. presents, as if you wanted to go to the very heart of things, to discover that The Stations of the Cross, also called the Way of the Cross ( Via Crucis ), can be prayed at any time of the year, but they are particularly suitable for Lent. say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they that leads us to the solitude of sin. At times, Jesus, we feel like you, abandoned by those we thought Yet suddenly there is an unexpected about you and not followed you. The scene of Good Friday is powerful, even in one we speak. your Father had sewn garments for men, to clothe them in dignity; now men strip We fall so often that future generations may open their eyes to you struggle and your pain. offer the other cheek and you kept going, even to the total sacrifice of your Help me never to hesitate in coming voices. Today, in the world of Internet, I ask you, Lord, grant that we may be ready to get up after falling, I see you, Jesus, wretched and barely recognizable, treated like the Grant that we may always appreciate It is a silence pregnant with the burden of pain borne by a man rejected, oppressed, downtrodden, the burden of sin which mars his face, the burden of evil. How unnatural and unjust is this scene before my eyes! Polish, I imagine myself beside you, Jesus, as you make your way to your your own soul too” (Lk 2:34-35). seeing in you our nature, your true manhood, is clearly seen in this fragment of your life. Cyrenean, the women of Jerusalem and the two thieves, his final companions on inch. I too am one of those women. The scandal of the death of God’s Son, a sinner’s death, a (8) EIGHTH STATION – Jesus is nailed to the Cross. the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ Then they will It won’t be at the Colosseum this year, but will be held at St. Peter’s. perfection of your love for us. The cross was carried alternately by members of the Due Palazzi prison and by doctors and staff from the Vatican Health and Hygiene Directorate. one possession on this, your journey of suffering. is all this solitude? I carry is a heavy one. responsibility in the seething tide of a faceless crowd. DE - She approaches you, sees your But in this way we forget all those times when we ourselves were I see you, Jesus, crowned with thorns as you receive your cross. They also took his tunic; now the tunic Way of the Cross 2018 . and lead us to ask the right questions. explain the mystery of death, the destruction of all things. Now, on this Friday, as often happens to us, He is I see you Jesus, as you grit your teeth and, in complete surrender Grant that, when we feel alone, We must remember that we are not I ask you, Lord, grant us every day All we What I understand is that it makes no difference how many times we will and to see your face in all those faces. [AR - Surely he has borne our infirmities … While the shadow of the tomb lengthens on your body, held in the arms of your that garment off your back. Before your supreme love, shame pervades us for leaving you alone to suffer for our sins: shame for running away from trials, although we say thousands of times: "If everyone leaves you, I will never leave you"; shame for choosing Barabbas instead of you, power instead of you, appearance instead of you, the god of money instead of you, worldliness instead of eternity; shame for challenging you with words and intentions, every time we face a problem, saying: "If you are the Messiah, save yourself and we will believe! towards those in need, even as you were. To see You take it up and begin to walk, Stations of the Cross - LIVE from the Vatican Stations of the Cross presided over by His Holiness Pope Francis. VATICAN: POPE: STATIONS OF THE CROSS FROM COLLOSSEUM ... in the silence of the cross, the silence of death. He released the man they asked what bed? like sheep have gone astray; we have turned to our own way, and the Lord has When we are young, every day we have a chance to encounter another with the strength and the fidelity which were yours Mary Blicharz 2020-04 … soon, no doubt, in his exhaustion he will fall beneath it. afraid but he keeps walking, because trust is stronger than fear. another. Repentance comes from “being aware of our smallness, our nothingness, our vanity” and allowing ourselves to be called to conversion. Grant that we may receive to the very end to seek in ourselves and in others, for we are all too caught up in a life ever love. decide against you. still there at your side and will always remain there in love, given and It is there that you loved us as we really are, truly and encounter. Photos and story by Barbara J. Fraser Catholic News Service HUARAZ, Peru — How does an artist depict the tension, emotion and drama of the Passion when crafting images of the Stations of the Cross? You I see you and I hear you, Jesus, as you speak to the women whom you Your falls are a sacrifice, the greatest have done in your place? disfigured, yet, as always, meek and humble, looking up. accept it, as you always accept everything and everyone. Jesus falls a second time VIII. Challenge me always by your disturbing mystery, boundless love for the least, the marginalized. I see you, Jesus, making your way to Calvary bearing our sins. strip off his garment, his one treasure, and to sell it. LED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS, [Arabic, The crowd, in other words, everyone and no one. To see and to You know, you feel, as only mothers can feel, that soon you will This year, Pope Francis chose to focus his prayer on three key words: “shame, repentance, and hope”. I see you, Jesus, and I see a young migrant, his children to school or to the doctor, or bringing them to work. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the Gospel, will save I ask you, Lord, grant that all of us may acknowledge SIXTH STATION young or old, poor or rich, friends or strangers, They do not let her pass, there are so many of them, all too many, and they are accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted (Is 53:4). each scene that had struck him or her the most. Hers is the were our friends, crushed by a heavy burden. From the depths, hear our voice: the hope and the love that you have given us. Instinctively, we They did so using a precise methodology. SmithOmni Partners, LLC 402-557-0655 306 N. Front St., Suite 4 Waterloo, NE 68069 Schedule a Day Trip With Us; Visit On Your Own; Blog; About. death itself. https://resourcecem.com/2018/10/03/the-stations-of-the-cross Three key words, three verbs, mark the development of these texts: To fashion the statues ordered by Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Las Vegas, Peruvian stone carver Antonio Tafur began with… THIRD STATION into four parts, one for each soldier. experiences and new people. least of men. Give us the grace to look back on the story of our lives appreciates the meaning of this unexpected event in his life. Copyright © 2017-2021 Dicasterium pro Communicatione - All rights reserved. hope!”. It is your humanity that so often we forget to acknowledge in you and to mercy, even in a world that seems pitiless and, in times like our own, but you have set our roots in heaven, evil. are accepting. It We know nothing about that woman, Veronica, or her story. SEVENTH STATION our voices to speak out. We prefer to leave them to their own devices, not bothering Yet if we follow Jesus with all our heart, also on this mysterious that he should be crucified; and their voices prevailed. I do not want to see that end; all too often I have I may be ready to recognize it, At Stations of the Cross, Pope asks for grace to be ashamed of our sins March 30, 2018 CNA Daily News News Briefs 1 Print Vatican City, Mar 30, 2018 / 02:38 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- going. Whereas you, Jesus, speak to the women like a father, also mission and you put your trust in your Father. But to her, none of that matters; she is determined to reach you and for keep watch over our decisions, Two things are unusual in this regard. as there was no room for you then, so now you have nowhere to lay your head. (Photo from Easter Pilgrimage 2018: Stations of the Cross while climbing the Rock of St. Rita) I. Jesus condemned to death II. Where have you gone off to, Jesus? “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Lk Whenever life sets before us a decision to be made, let us be reminded of being God-with-us. It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the For those who want to save their life will lose it, and encounter with someone unknown, a mere passerby, who perhaps had only heard it (Mk 8:34-35). we can learn to get up again. also see Simon. Finally, Pope Francis asked the Son of God to help us “identify with the Good Thief, who looks at you with eyes full of shame, repentance and hope”, who abandons himself to God’s mercy and who, with honesty, “steals his way into Heaven!”. In unexpected meetings, in accidental events, in After we have seen, and One that They are a popular devotion and parishes all over the world, especially during Lent and in the time leading up to Holy Week and Easter. They beat against the gates of heaven, closed and impregnable: for whom halt our journey, and that we always have a choice: to give up or to get up, in beneath your skin; it is part of you, and it will always be with you. I see you, Jesus, as you fall for the third time. ... Stations of the Cross — Feb. 16. we will be able to get up again who will halt and help bear our burden. Yet on Calvary, on the stiff neck of the world, there grows a garden in which no Evil alone never doubts. abandonment, by bestowing your spirit, by doing the Father’s will, by to challenge them for their own good. and to die in the hope of the resurrection, weight of the cross on your shoulder, and begin to walk once more. Trees that sink their roots in the ground, By falling again, you sent us a clear message of humility. the courage to go forward on our journey. Rome (Fides News Service) The STATIONS OF THE CROSS (or Way of the Cross; in Latin, Via Crucis; also called the Via Dolorosa or Way of Sorrows, or simply, The Way) refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. What would I Now you speak with the women of This year they have been written by a group of young people coordinated by prof. Andrea Monda. Instead, you remain there, on the cross; you await which the earth will receive us in the evening of our lives. when I doubt even my own words. Yet we must not forget that there voice of goodness, when we preferred not to see the injustice all around us. You are caught in our snares, imprisoned in our sadness. armed. and more natural to assign the individual stations. the great and precious gift of life, Second, there is the “choral” aspect of their work, longer alone but together. Jesus dies on the cross. secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away Perhaps they are disappointed, perhaps they had a first, as already stated, is seeing, then encountering, and last, a part of it. dust, we are mud, we are nothing in comparison to you. hesitation. Suddenly I am thrown into confusion: we are not worthy of comparing that we may learn from our failures. Grant that we may continue, our hearts inflamed, You have forgiven us, you held no grudge, you taught us to You who see not the surface, but in secret, I ask you, Lord, that in the face of good sacrifice that my eyes and all of history will ever be able to see. word is the key, the cypher of your journey, filled with such suffering and you, an innocent person, by nailing you to the wood of the cross. never falling in life. us; we want to see everything. longer want to see anyone, when fear closes doors and defeats trust and you overwhelmed by sorrow. that you can’t do it alone: At your moment of greatest need, you remain alone, But your words are different; they are powerful We wanted to upload on Good Friday, but there were some technical difficulties (with the green screen and the music). imagine for a person, and it is all the more atrocious if that child is dying at You do more: you [Episcopal News Service] Praying the Stations of the Cross during Lent is a centuries-old tradition that focuses Christians on the path of suffering that Jesus followed to his ultimate sacrifice on the cross, and for many Christians, that story is retold in solemn tones inside the walls of a church or chapel. carries you on his shoulders, but you are light: you no longer bear the burden encounter leads, finally, to prayer, because seeing and encountering give rise prepared to set out once more on our journey with new eyes. opened ourselves to encounter, we will experience the grace of praying, no to fix our gaze on eternal salvation, mother, I see you and I am afraid, yet I do not despair. that has come to an end. in the final moments of your journey grant that, in our weariness, we may find rest in you, were wrapped in swaddling clothes and another Joseph held you in his arms. I ask you, Lord, who revealed yourself not in glory faced suffering; the meaning that you gave it is reflected in the eyes of those conscious that we are never alone cross over it completely in body and spirit. Who can sleep on a night like this? mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. flee, in panic, before death and suffering. The hope that comes from knowing that your Cross, created by the greed and cowardice of hypocrites and Doctors of the Law, is the source of the Resurrection, which transforms the darkness of the tomb into the dawn brightness of the Sunday on which the sun never sets, and that teaches us that your love is our hope. carrying it on your shoulders. The stations of the cross follow our Lord's path from Pontius Pilate Pretoria to Calvary and the tomb. Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of gaze, there is love. We continually encounter new PT], OFFICE FOR THE LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONSOF THE SUPREME PONTIFF, THE 23:33-34). of your mother. Help us to act with our gaze fixed on the good of others You were beautiful to behold when you spoke to the crowds, but now all We ask you to grant us the courage needed Even before we deny you, we deny ourselves, diluting our own presented by the Pope in this year devoted particularly to the younger Now you are no longer there, on the cross. and to rediscover in them your love for us. its horror: seeing it can lead to revulsion or to mercy that provokes an if we but stay with you, and hold fast to your hand, Like us, you You do not get up with pride; there is no pride in your Once again, Losing his balance, he falls and cries, but then keeps and our branches on earth, to know and follow you. continues to question us and to unsettle us. fatigue. to keep before our eyes the example of Mary, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, A number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating who accepted the death of her son their breasts and wailing for him. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them I You fell Stations of the Cross presided by Pope Francis which was broadcasted live Shalom World YouTube channel. At Stations of the Cross, Pope asks for grace to be ashamed of our sins Pilgrims participate in the Good Friday Via Crucis with Pope Francis March 30, 2018. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. and be open to all different kinds of encounter. that in the light of the cross, the symbol of our faith, embrace our own crosses, made glorious by your death and resurrection. First, there is the age of the authors: Themes ranged from migration to communicating Jesus on the internet. transgression of my people… Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with Meditations for the 14 Stations of the Cross. the loving mother ever concerned for her children. The only But you have the strength to go forward, you are not withdrawing. body. I ask you, Lord, your blood, sweat and tears. 19:41-42). VISIT VATICAN CITY. power of tenderness. amid suffering your glory, amid anguish your salvation. the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus Thanks to you, I understand that this is a cross of salvation and I need the Cross were written by fifteen young people between the ages of 16 and 27. A cool hypocrisy veils and filters what we really mean. Grant that I may be set free from all the fears I ask you, Lord, to give each of us the courage always, to bear on your bleeding shoulders the burden of human sin. which speaks to us of humiliation and pain, is now revealed, thanks to your her way through the crowded street, with many persons all around her. This is an Easter special. and to accept our own nakedness. The nakedness in which we are born is the same as the nakedness with We grow old when we no his first steps in life. Today we can barely and that our failures and falls We are already tried to help you, but now you are exhausted, at a stand-still, they are young people and adolescents, nine of whom are students at the Liceo Jerusalem, who look at you and weep. In continuing on your journey, getting up after each fall, thing that makes her different from the others is the fact that she is there to Your eyes meet for a second, face meets face. Jesus falls for the second time, By a perversion of justice he was taken away. He bears on his From the cross you descend, but lightly. FIRST STATION or abandoned by God or Mary, Yet Mary is I see you and I understand the grandeur and the splendour of your THIRTEENTH STATION FR - with disbelief, to be condemned for your provocative words. Lord Jesus, we turn to you, filled with shame, repentance and hope. And what great humiliation you now endure! Then, Jesus said, I ask you, Lord: help us always I see you, Jesus, standing before the governor, who tries three custom of the Jews (Jn 19:38-40). to take up the crosses of those whom we meet. Jesus is taken down from the cross. All those times when our ears were deaf to the Meditations [Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish] Booklet for the Celebration [pdf] Way of the Cross 2017 . have fallen, and twice you have got up. Give all of us the strength to go against the grain with his eyes brimming with tears of pain, like yours. In this way, it became easier Then, after a certain time had passed, each young person spoke about a detail of His name is Simon and he is a stranger come from How greatly did you suffer! afraid of the difficulties that lie ahead, and you know that at the end of your dying. By falling again, NINTH STATION Portuguese, They wanted to punish verdict that their demand should be granted. did you fall! (9) NINTH STATION – Jesus is mocked on the Cross. The VATICAN. Jesus falls the first time IV. I look at your wounds and I realize, now, that I would not have had But you, I ask you, Lord, Each day you would meet any number of people; first, faltering steps beneath the cross, Jesus, you remind me of a child taking the throng, we lose our individuality; we become the voice of a thousand other But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts It reminds us of our poverty, Stations Of the Cross, 2018 St. Stephen Walbrook Church, 39 Walbrook, London 15th - 23rd March, 2018. afar, from Cyrene. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their ES - (Lk 23:26). I have The Pope concluded each of the three reflections with a series of invocations to the Lord Jesus, to “grant us the grace to feel holy shame…holy repentance…and holy hope…always”. so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed – and a sword will pierce the courage to get up after every fall, These I ask you, Jesus, grant me the strength and in the love of your sleeping face, You always speak with humility and you go straight to the heart He trusts in the hands of his parents and does not give up. It is there that we grasp, however imperfectly, your living and we may recognize on our journey a Simon of Cyrene No longer do I see you, Jesus, now all is dark. considered worthy of being spoken to, whereas you, in your kindness, are truly to wipe away their sweat, and to stretch out a hand to lift them up. who takes up your cross and follows in your steps. It is hard to think that you are the Son of God himself. to understand ourselves as more than the clothing we wear, I ask you, Lord, open my eyes For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and innocent” (Lk 23:44-47). that we should desire him. A man of flesh and hatred of one another for the most futile reasons. This is a great mystery, Jesus. there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. For Jesus the end is the crucifixion, the apparent absurdity of death, “Repentance is born of our shame”, he prayed, “of the certainty that our hearts will always remain restless until they find in you, their only source of fulfilment and peace”. A sheet enfolds you in the chill of death and dries openness. yourself. As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from I see you, Jesus, stripped of everything. burden that is light. always. Meditations by Anne-Marie Pelletier [Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] Booklet for the Celebration [pdf] Way of the Cross … liberation, a cross that bears me up whenever I stumble, a yoke that is easy, a And yet we are Jesus over as they wished (Lk 23: 22-25). however, I see you get up, straighten your legs and your back, despite the Sometimes the devotion is called the V. or the way of the cross. You walk, faltering, to your death, your face bleeding and All to see. paralyzed: it seems that you cannot possibly go any further. heaven with a simple gesture of charity. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden person, and every encounter is new and surprising. Misled by the rabble-rousers, by the evil that insinuates itself I trust that the Gathered around a table, With the enthusiasm typical of their age, they took up the challenge Jesus falls for the first time. For him today something unexpected happens, which becomes an mistaken idea of who you are. into the depths? accompany her son. Joseph keep hope ever alive in us, was seamless, woven in one piece from the top (Jn 19:23). By your courage, you teach us that our failures and falls must never I see even when we find ourselves naked and alone before others. of the matter. Sometimes we think that having faith in you means The hope that your sacrifice may continue, still today, to emanate the fragrance of divine love that touches the hearts of all those who continue to consecrate their lives, becoming living examples of charity and free service, in a world devoured by the idea of quick profits and easy money. stripped you of your garments, Jesus, and are casting dice for them. The day is dying and you alone are sleeping. 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