40 Days Of Prayer And Reflection - The Way Of The Cross: Station 14 Jesus Is Buried In The Tomb

On this solemn celebration of the Holy Triduum, Good Friday, we welcome you to join us in praying the Way of The Cross.  Each Day, for the last two weeks, we have featured one station for your prayer and reflection. If you are just joining now or would like to spend time with one of the previous stations, you may do so using this link: The Way Of The Cross 2012

Station 14 Jesus Is Buried In The Tomb


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


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


Christ Speaks To Me: Thus my mortal life ends. Yet, even now, new life is beginning. Like the seed buried beneath the soil whose growth begins even as it lay hidden and in darkness; for my mother, for Mary Magdalen, for Peter, John...for you.

My life's work has been fulfilled. The work of my life-giving Spirit must begin though my Holy Church and through your own life too.

I look to you.

Day by day, from this moment on you must be my faithful apostle, my willing victim, my humble saint.

I Reply: My Jesus, my Lord, my spirit is as willing, as my flesh is weak. And yet, I pledge;

The words you had no time to speak, the pains you had yet to endure, the loving work you could not do in your shortage of time,

Let me speak, let me endure, let me do - through you.

I may be weak. But you, Lord, will be my strength.

Amen.

Closing Prayer



My Jesus, My Lord,  as I view your victorious wounds, help me to meditate on them and
to see in them the sign of your victory for all.

Bless me with your outstretched hands. Give me your peace, and those three most
sacred, and eternal gifts of faith, hope and love. I pray that I, in spite of my weakness, might find in your willing woundedness the courage to give myself to you, who gave me your entire life.
Receive my own loving sacrifice and walk with me as I go out to do the will of God in my life.

Amen.