EIGHTH STATION - JESUS CONSOLES THE WOMEN

We adore you O Christ and we praise you
Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the World

Reading (Luke 23:27-31)
And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of Women who bewailed and lamented him, but Jesus turning to them said, "daughters of Jeruslaem; do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your Children. For behold, the dys are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the Womb that never bore, and the breast that never gave suck. They will say to the Mountains, "fall on us" and to the hills, "cover us". For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?

Christ speaks
How often had I longed to take the children of Jerusalem and gather them to me But they refused. But now these women weep for me, and my heart mourns for them — mourns for their sorrows that will come. I comfort those who seek to solace me. How gentle can you be?   How kind?


Man Responds

My Jesus Your compassion in your Passion is beyond compare. Lord, teach me, help me to learn. When I would snap at those who hurt me with their ridicule, those who misunderstand or hinder me with some misguided helpfulness, those who intrude upon my privacy — then help me curb my tongue. May gentleness become my cloak. Lord, make me kind like you.

I love you Jesus my love above all things...
Our Father... Hail Mary... Glory be to the Father...

Have mercy on us O Lord
Have mercy on us

For the Sins of his own nation
Saw him hang in desolation
Till his spirit forth he sent