The Twelfth Station:
Jesus Dies On The Cross
We Adore You O Christ and we Praise You.
Because by Your Holy Cross,
You have Redeemed the World!
Reflection: It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the curtain of the temple was torn in the middle. Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, “It is finished. Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit.’ Then, bowing His head, He died. (Lk. 23:44-46, Jn 19:30b)
Meditation: My people, what have I done to you ? Or in what way have I offended you? Answer me. What more should I have done, and did not do? I led you out of the land of Egypt, and you prepared a cross for Me. I opened the Red Sea before you and you opened My side with a lance. I gave You a royal sceptre, and You have given me a crown of thorns. With great power I lifted you up, and you have hung Me upon a cross. My people, what have I done to you, or in what have I offended you? Answer me. (From the Reproaches of Good Friday).
“Know for certain that you must lead a dying life, and the more you die to yourself, the more you begin to life for God.”
Know for certain that you must lead a dying life, and the more you die to yourself, the more you begin to life for God.
No one is fit to comprehend heavenly things who has not yet been resigned to suffer adversities for Christ. Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more wholesome for you in this world, than to suffer willingly for Christ.
And if you were to choose, you ought to wish to suffer adversities for Christ rather than to be delighted with earthly comforts, because you would then be more Christ-like and more conformed to all the saints.” Imitation of Christ, Book 2, Ch 12, para 14 ff.
Pray: Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Amen.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Amen.
