Stations of the Cross from the Holy Land

[Music] Lord Jesus Christ on your path to Jerusalem you wanted to tell your disciples and no fewer than three times that you were going to the holy city where you would have been rejected convicted and died but on the third day you would arise along the paths he also invited each and every one of us to pick up our own cross and follow you he reminded us that a seed to bear fruit has to fall onto the ground and die and thanks to you we understood that only those who offer their own lives will enter life with you the real full and blessed life the eternal one and the one of eternal communion in love help us to take your invitation seriously to learn to read everything in the light of Easter and to be able to follow in your footsteps to make our lives a gift together with you with the father and with the Holy Spirit may you live and reign and be glorified Almighty God forever and ever amen [Music] first station Jesus is condemned to death adora most a crease that benedita masti be we are / sanctum crew time to one raddimus diamond on Pilate said to them then what shall I do with Jesus called Messiah they all said let him be crucified but he said why what evil has he done they only shouted the louder let him be crucified then he released Barabbas to them but after he had Jesus scourged he handed him over to be crucified kyria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison Lord Jesus you allowed yourself to be put on trial and judged like an evildoer in this way to you take the evil and the injustice of the whole world onto yourself as well as the evil and injustice present in my life and in that of every person help us not to judge so that we are not judged either help us not to wash our hands of injustice so that we do not also become accomplices of injustice and evil help us to deliver into your hands our injustice and the evil that we have done to be made just by you by your innocence and by your holiness [Music] second station Jesus accepts the cross adoramus take risks that benedi Jima Stevie we are / Santa Cruz m21 ready miss diamond on then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him they stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him weaving a crown out of thorns they placed it on his head and a reed in his right hand a kneeling before him they mocked him saying hail King of the Jews they spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head and when they had mocked him they stripped him of the cloak dressed him in his own clothes and let him off to crucify him Iria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus inside us there Nestle's the tendency to persecute those who are weak and those who are wrong but also those who seem too good or too holy to us inside us like the snake when someone steps on its tail an immediate reaction is triggered off at the slightest wrong suffered at the smallest word that hurts us at what seems the lesson our image you bear and support those who mock and hit you those who flagellate you and coronate you with thorns those who insult you and disguise you as a mock King those who burden your shoulders with a cross which you certainly do not deserve you also bear and support each one of us our little faith are uncertain hope are intermittent ability to love you bear and support and wish to give us not only the example but also the Grace and the ability to act like you [Music] third station Jesus Falls for the first time adora most a crease that benedita moose TV we are percent encroach m-21 raddimus tomando yet it was our pain that he bore our sufferings he endured we thought of him as stricken struck down by God and afflicted but he was pierced for our sins crushed her iniquity he bore the punishment that makes us whole by his wounds we were healed Iria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus we know what it means to fall and we fall for many reasons sometimes we fall in a moment of distraction sometimes because a heavy burden has dragged us to the ground sometimes we fall because we trip against an obstacle or because someone has tripped us up sometimes we put ourselves deliberately and stupidly in situations that will make us fall you fall under the overall weight of our Falls and of the Falls of the whole of humanity since Adam you fall to be able to take on what crushes us you fall to make us rise up again and give us back hope thank you Lord Jesus [Music] fourth station Jesus meets his mother adoramus degrees that been Adichie mas TV we are / Santa Cruz m21 raddimus de mundo Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother behold this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be contradicted and knew yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed his mother kept all these things in her heart Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison Lord Jesus marrying your mother had taken you to the Temple in Jerusalem when you were only a few days old to present you to your father a precocious prophecy of a life offered for love in which she herself took part now she meets you on the way of the cross on the path of the full accomplishment of that prophecy which will be the gift of love of your whole life until the very last drop of blood until the very last breath she who gave you life is next to you at the time of giving life she who gave you life is now next to each one of us our maternal support in giving life [Music] fifth station Jesus is helped by this Iranian adorama stay crease that Ben Adichie mas TV we are per sanctum crew time to one ready miss diamond on as they were going out they met a sir any and named Simon this man they pressed into service to carry his cross then jesus said to his disciples whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself take up his cross and follow me helia Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus Simon the Cyrenian is not a volunteer in giving you a hand to carry the cross he is a man obliged after the effort of a day spent in the fields it happens to us as well sometimes the privilege of being called to carry with you the weight of the suffering of one of our similar at first may be reluctantly because we have already had enough of our efforts and our own crosses then gradually discovering that it is a gift to be able to cover the stretch of paths with you which will give a new meaning to our walking to our daily efforts to our giving life oh no Darrell Evita [Music] six station Veronica wipes the face of Jesus adora most a crease that benedi Jima Stevie we are per sanctum crew time to one ready misty mundo he had no majestic bearing to catch our eye no beauty to draw us to him he was burned and avoided by men a man of suffering knowing pain like one from whom you turn your face spurned and we held him in no esteem Elia Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison senior leaders will hold pull in in those who are above your new warm Oh Lord Jesus in the face and in the eyes of every man there is the essence of his soul and the synthesis of his life in your life and in your eyes the face and the eyes of the invisible God injured and dirty with the dust and blood is circumscribed to radiates on us mercy and peace to Veronica you gave your first and real image to be worshipped in an existential form - let us recreate ourselves in your image as well yo Nvidia and Amazon a little murky seven station Jesus falls for the second time a dorama stay Chris that been Adichie masti B we are per sanctum crew time to one ready miss diamond on four we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but one who has similarly been tested in every way yet without sin yuria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus what does being charitable and sharing mean you have shown us it means lowering yourself to our human condition experiencing and feeling what we feel in our humanity and fragility in everything and for everything completely except sin it is you're lowering yourself that raises us it is you're becoming small that reveals our real greatness it is your falling that lifts us up from all our falls including sin thank you Lord Jesus eight station the women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus adora most a crease that benedi Jima Stevie we are pur sanctum crew time to one ready miss diamond on a large crowd of people followed Jesus including many women who mourned and lamented him Jesus turned to them and said daughters of Jerusalem do not weep for me weep instead for yourselves and for your children for indeed the days are coming when people will say blessed are the barren the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry kiria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus so many mothers continue to cry for themselves and their children according to your prophecy in countries devastated by war by injustice and by hunger but also in those which are just as devastated by the mirages of artificial paradises and the culture of waste Comfort these mothers who are too many who now have no tears left so that they can once again be the ones to comfort and to give each one of us a maternal heart to restore humanity to this world of ours [Music] 9 station Jesus falls for the third time a dorama stay crease that benedita masti be we are pur sang Tom Cruise m-21 ready misty mundo come to me all you who labor and are burdened and I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart kiria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus the third fall is the one that shows a glimpse of the destination and this way you remind us that it does not matter how many times we fall but how many times we let you lift us up again to walk in your footsteps until the end until the second when everything is accomplished together with you you put us back on our feet we start walking again perhaps we will fall again but once again you encouraged us to get up to climb the holy mountain where everything is accomplished together with you thank you Lord Jesus [Music] 10th station the soldiers share the robes of Jesus [Music] demondo when the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his clothes and divided them into four shares one for each soldier they also took his tunic but the tunic was seamless woven in one piece from the top down so they said to one another let's not tear it but cast lots for it to see whose it will be in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled they divided my garments among them and for my vesture they cast lots yuria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus the first man created in your image and resemblance was naked in the Garden of Eden and shameless until the day when you had to give him a robe to protect him from fear and his fragility now you come and rest it is a gesture that shows the desire to humiliate yourself and be deprived of your dignity yet you undress yourself to clothe each one of us with new robes of your tunic woven in a single piece of a dignity that we have not deserved and that nobody can any longer tear from us [Music] 11 station Jesus is nailed on to the cross adora mistake restate benedi Jima Stevie we are / sanctum crew time to 1 ready misty mundo when they came to the place called the skull they crucified Him and the criminals there one on his right the other on his left then Jesus said Father forgive them they know not what they do they divided his garments by casting Lots now one of the criminals hanging there reviled to Jesus saying are you not the Messiah save yourself and us the other however rebuked him said in reply have you no fear of God for you are subject to the same condemnation and indeed we have been condemned justly for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes but this man has done nothing criminal then he said Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom and he replied to him Amen I say to you today you will be with me in paradise Iria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus remember me when you are in your kingdom and make the doors of your paradise open today for me as well for me who still bear the wounds of sin for me who still struggles to trust and entrust myself for me who would like to come down from the cross instead of remaining there rightly next to you Lord Jesus continued to intercede for us sinners who do not even know what we are doing and ask the father who receiving the offer of your life brings down on our unconscious humanity his pity and His forgiveness 12 station Jesus dies on the cross a dorama stay crease that been adichie mas TV we are / sanctum crew time to 1 ready miss diamond on after this aware that everything was now finished in order that the scripture might be fulfilled Jesus said I thirst there was a vessel filled with common wine so they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth when Jesus had taken the wine he said it is finished I'm bowing his head he handed over the spirit but when they the soldiers came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead they did not break his legs but one soldier thrust his Lance into his side and immediately blood and water flowed out helia Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus when you ask to drink it is because you want to quench our thirst you had already said this to the Samaritan woman now that everything is fulfilled now that you are about to complete the meaning of the story now that your incarnation is reaching its end now that a new spring is opening for us from your side water and blood flow out a river that purifies quenches and heals an open spring that will continue to flow for the whole of eternity and make Golgotha a heart of celestial Jerusalem [Music] 13th station Jesus has taken down from the cross a dorama stay crease that benedita moose TV we are / Santa Cruz m21 red amis de mundo there were many woman there looking on from a distance who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him when it was evening there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph who was himself a disciple of Jesus he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus then Pilate ordered it to be handed over here Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus your inert body has come down from the cross while you eternal and immortal verb descends into the abyss of death Joseph Nicodemus and the women hastily recomposed your lifeless limbs while you eternal and immortal verb are already beginning to awaken from death the humanity of the origins and the whole of creation death seems to have prevailed but you eternal and immortal verb divine seed buried in our story is already sprouting [Music] 14 station Jesus is laid in the tomb adora most a crease that been Adichie masti be we are / santa cruz m21 raddimus diamond on taking the body joseph trapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed but mary magdalene and the other mary remains sitting there facing the tomb Iria Eleison Christe Eleison Kyrie Eleison [Music] Lord Jesus for nine months the womb of Mary held you when you cross the threshold which separated eternity from time and you became flesh now for three days the womb of the tomb holds you before you cross forever the threshold that separates this mortal life of ours from the fullness of living in God to be reborn in him forever all our humanity we lay on the bare stone next to your lifeless body are human dying as well every anguish fear and turmoil every tear and cry and we keep vigil in silence [Music] [Music] conclusion let us place ourselves ideally inside the edicue love the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in the place which physically received the body of Jesus from the evening of Good Friday until Easter morning and saw him pass from death to resurrection let us dwell for a few seconds in silence in adoration then let us pray [Music] Lord Jesus I place my hands and forehead on this marble blanket which covers and preserves the rock on which your body for three days felt the human experience of our laying down life and dying delivered to the supreme mystery I know that here you cross the threshold to enter the darkness of nothing in the anguish of living for just the short day of grass in our destiny of death I know that here between the night and dawn eternal yeast in time you have dissolved death forever to finally take us back to the Father who is the womb and Haven of all I lay my hands and forehead on this marble blanket I kneel and kiss the stone and feel that here I can believe that I can trust and entrust myself that here I can draw on the hope of eternity in love that is stronger than death 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Length: 27min 35sec (1655 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 17 2019