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Stations of the Cross

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STATIONS OF THE CROSS – As composed by St Alphonsus Liguori.

8th STATION – JESUS SPEAKS TO THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM

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Prayers and Reflection
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.
Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.
 
Consider that those women wept with compassion at seeing Jesus in so pitiable a state, streaming with blood, as He walked along. But Jesus said to them, “Weep not for me but for your children.”

   My Jesus, laden with sorrows, I weep for the offences that I have committed against you, because of the pains which they have deserved, and still more because of the displeasure which they have caused you, who have loved me so much. It is your love, more than the fear of hell, which causes me to weep for my sins.
 
Our Father
Hail Mary
Glory be
 
I love you, Jesus, my love above all things.
I repent with my whole heart of having offended you. Never permit me to separate myself from you again. Grant that I may love you always,
and then do with me what you will.
 
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.		Scripture Reading: Luke 23:28-31

Large numbers of people followed him, and of women who mourned and lamented for him. ·But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for yourselves and for your children. For the days will surely come when people will say, ‘Happy are those who are barren, the wombs that have never borne, the breasts that have never suckled!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’; to the hill, ‘Cover us!’ “For if men use the green wood like this, what will happen when it is dry?”

Next Station….. Jesus falls the third time

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Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, copyright (c) 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc. Reproduced with Permission.
Excerpt from THE GRAIL PSALMS, with permission of A P Watt at United Agents on behalf of The Grail, England. Copyright © 1963 by The Grail, England.
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