40 Days Of Prayer And Reflection - The Way Of The Cross: Station 13 Jesus Is Taken From The Cross

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Station 13 - Jesus Is Taken Down From The Cross

We adore You O Christ And We Praise You...


For By Your Holy Cross, You have Redeemed The World.



Luke 23:50-52

Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph...This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.


Christ Speaks To Me: The final cup has been drunk. I have breathed my last. The Lamb of God has offered all, for all.

My Mass may be complete, but not my disciples', not my mother's...and not yours.

My mother weeps beneath the cross, my lifeless body lay in the arms of the woman who shared her life with me. We are a picture of all partings, you too must say goodbye to those whom you love most dearly...and grief will come.

In your dark moments of sadness and loss remember this, beloved;

A world of souls were saved, by the piercing my my mother's heart.

Your bereavement too, may be the price of souls.

I Reply: My Jesus, my Lord, make haste to help me;

To accept the partings that may come,
friends moving,
children leaving,
dear ones going home to you.

Give me Lord, the grace to say "Not my will, but thine be done." And if by just one word of mine, I might draw them back from rest in you against your loving will...I would not speak.

Amen.