Stations of the Cross (Week 1: Jesus Falls for the First Time)

[Music] you dear brothers and sisters in Christ we know that during the time of Lent many many of you have great devotion to the Stations of the Cross I'm happy to let you know that in front of the main entrance of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd Victoria Street we have 15 Stations of the Cross in the garden of resurrection there are also 15 Stations of the Cross inside the main cathedral church however in this presentation I'd like to walk you through the 15 Stations of the Cross come to this Cathedral when you can during the Lenten season have your personal devotion or bring your family and friends to make the Stations of the Cross to be nourished by your faith and to be strengthened by the reality of God's compassionate love that he has shown us to this beautiful Stations of the Cross devotion that we have in our Catholic Church I welcome you one and all and I look forward to seeing all of you here [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] the Stations of the Cross in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit let us pray announce himself and take up his cross and follow me in spirit of humility and penance we want to talk with you we are in need of weakness we want to understand the way of the Cross like that the cross must be carried today if we want to witness to Europe us to make your muscle delivery to the end to the livonian of the cross [Music] [Music] the first station Jesus is condemned to death we adore you O Christ and we bless you it was the day of preparation about the sixth hour here is your king said Pilate to the Jews but they shouted away with him away with him crucify him Pilate said shall I crucify your king the chief priests answered we have no king except Caesar so Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified let us pray [Music] the second station Jesus sticks up his cross we adore you oh Christ and we bless you Jesus was wounded for our rebellion crushed because of our guilt the punishment reconciling us fell on him and we have been healed by his bruises we had all gone astray like sheep each taking his own way and the Lord brought the acts of rebellion of all of us to bear on him ill-treated and afflicted he never opened his mouth like a lamb led to the slaughter house like a sheep dung before it chourus he'd never opened his mouth let us pray Jesus Christ the suffering people in this world to be ready to take up our cross equity [Music] [Music] [Music] the third station Jesus Falls the first time we adore Christ and we bless you [Music] Jesus emptied himself taking the form of a slave becoming as human beings are and being in every way like a human being he was humbling yet even to accepting death death on a cross and for this God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all other names let us pray lord jesus christ almighty god neohart under the weight of the cross he bring to you the subways in the universe we ask you to give us being healthy luxury or we have materialistic way of life [Music] [Music] the fourth station Jesus meets his mother we adore Christ and we bless you Simon said to Mary his mother look he's the steam for the fall and the rise of many in Israel destined to be a sign that is opposed and a sword will pierce your own soul too so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare let us pray your Jesus Christ your mother was with you on the way to Calvary having a share in your sufferings she is for us today an example of strength and a fidelity really imitates up and follow you any happiness as well as in sorrows [Music] [Applause] [Music] the fifth station Simon helps Jesus to carry the cross we adore you O Christ and we bless you as they were leading Jesus away they seized a man Simon from Cyrene who was coming in from the country and made him shoulder the cross and carry it behind Jesus let us pray society forgive us when we refuse to talk to people and keep too much to ourselves we ask from selfishness and pride [Music] [Music] [Music] the six station Veronica wipes the face of Jesus we adore you O Christ and we bless you [Music] Jesus had no form or charm to attract us no beauty to win no hearts he was despised the lures of men a man of sorrows familiar with suffering one from whom as it were we averted our gaze despised for whom we had no regard yet ours were the suffering he was bearing ours of the sorrow he was caring or we thought of him as someone being punished and struck with affliction by God let us pray Lord Jesus Christ merciful God you accept that the kind of shows you by Veronica we offer you is higher biases and generosity those various problems to the elderly to state people and business forgive us when we ignore our neighbors in need of us to be kind and compassionate [Music] [Music] [Music] the seventh station Jesus Falls the second time we adore Christ and we bless you many booths have surrounded me fierce Bulls cross me in against me they open wide the jaws like lions rending and roaring like water I'm poured out disjointed are all my boons many dogs have surrounded me a band of the wicked beset me they tear holes in my hands and feet and lay me in the dust of death let us pray [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] viii station Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem we adore Christ and we bless you a large number of people followed Jesus and women too who moan 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 let us pray lord jesus christ almighty have pity on us or ignore mercy help us to acknowledge our sins because aware of the how we do and it will be able to do [Music] the 19th station Jesus Falls the third time we adore your Christ and we bless you my people what have I done to you how if I offended you answer me I let you out of Egypt from slavery to freedom but you let your Saviour to the cross for 40 years I bore you up with manna in the desert but you struck me down and scourge me what more could I have done for you let us pray Jesus always the tenth station Jesus is stripped of his garments we adore Christ and we bless you when the soldiers had finished crucifying Jesus they took his clothing and divided it into four shares one for each soldier his undergarment was seamless woven in one piece from neck to hem so they said to one another instead of tearing it let us throw dice to decide who is to have it in this way the words of Scripture were fulfilled they divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes pray Lord Jesus Christ glory to Nevada you know much like the crowd we offer you our sufferings of those who have and those policy operation will give us my enemy misbehavior or any excess in life do not allow us [Music] the 11th station Jesus is kneeled to the cross we adore your Christ and we bless you carrying his own cross Jesus went out to the place of the skull or as it is called in Hebrew Golgotha where they crucified him with two others one on either side Jesus being in the middle Pilate brought out unnoticed and had it fixed to the cross it ran Jesus the Nazarene King of the Jews let us pray and misdeeds if strength in us [Music] [Music] the 12th station Jesus dies on the cross we adore your Christ and we bless you [Music] Jesus cried out in a loud voice saying father into your hands I commit my spirit with these words he breathed his last when the Centurion saw what had taken place he gave praise to God and said truly this was an upright man and when all the crowds who had gathered for the spectacle saw what had happened they went home beating their breasts all his friends stood at a distance so also did the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and seen all this happen let us pray [Music] [Music] [Music] the 13th station Jesus is taken down from the cross we adore your Christ and we bless you [Music] all you that passed this way look and see is any sorrow like the sorrow inflicted on me my eyes are filled with weeping my whole being is troubled and my strength is poured out the earth as I behold the cruel death of my son [Music] [Music] [Music] the 14th station Jesus is laid in the tomb we adore Christ and we bless you joseph of arimathea took the body wrapped it in a clean shroud and put it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock he then rolled a large stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away let us pray [Music] [Music] Christ is risen since you have been raised up to be with Christ you must look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God's right hand let your thoughts be on the things above not on the things that are on the earth because you have died and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God but when Christ is revealed he is your life you too will be revealed with him in glory [Music] but it's now our Father glory our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come Thy will be done on [Music] hill Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus [Music] Lori be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit [Music] and may Almighty God bless you the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit may he defend you from all angles and bring you to eternal life and may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace [Music] [Music] and so dear brothers and sisters in Christ today we would like to reflect on one of the stations and I've chosen the station where Jesus falls the first time falling is a very human experience we fall because of accidents and we bruise ourselves sometime it is more serious we even suffer from fracture or this fall can even cause death if we fall off a cliff there are two types of experiences of falling if you like the negative type when people express the falling as falling from fame or fortune when we do something seriously wrong true perhaps cheating or corruption or some immoral deeds however in this reflection I would like to focus on the positive aspect of following we are reflecting on Jesus's fall when he carried his cross on the way to Calvary the weight of the cross that Jesus carried was too heavy for him and the weight crushed him and he succumbed to the great weight of the cross and crashed to the ground in doing so Jesus reveals the fullness of his humanity but even as the Son of God fully human the weight of the cross was too much for him to bear he was weak from the scourging and so now as he carries the cross to Calvary it was too much for him to bear the main significance of this cross that Jesus is carrying it's precisely because he is fulfilling the Father's will externally the cross that Jesus is carrying is the instrument of shame through which a criminal is crucified in public shamefully and here Jesus was condemned to death for blasphemy in his Proclamation that he is the son of God externally the cross is an instrument of cruel torture and shame but at the depth of Jesus carrying the cross it's the mystery of salvation the reality of the cross then it's the Saviour of the Lord carrying the instrument of salvation with great dignity if we reflect on this divine mystery it reveals how the Son of God is determined to fulfill the Father's will Jesus does not give up he struggles to his feet and walks and struggles along to Calvary where he will be crucified we know that as we experience the many challenges of our faith for example fidelity in marriage of fidelity as a priest or religious it is God's will that we remain faithful to our vocation on whatever challenges we may face in living the faith with fidelity we are called to carry the cross sometimes the cross is overwhelming but yet we know like Jesus we are called never to give up each time before we are called to struggle to our feet and walk on as Jesus did as faithful disciples of the Lord we are called to be focused and determined to live the Father's will and never fear the cross as Jesus did not fear the cross we are called to live our faith and our vocation with greater fidelity and in the process grow in the familiarity of Jesus by carrying our cross daily you and I know how carrying the cross can be very challenging and often overwhelming yet because Jesus our Savior and Lord has shown us the way how to be faithful to the Lord nothing is impossible no crosses in life will crush us insofar as the cross we carry is our experience in our commitment to live the Father's will we have just pondered on the Stations of the Cross from the time when Jesus is condemned to death to his crucifixion and resurrection let us remember that Jesus has shown us the way let us pray for that Grace and wisdom to remain faithful to God's will at all times thank you god bless you [Music]

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Length: 44min 51sec (2691 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 28 2020