Opening Prayer
Heavenly Father, open our minds and hearts now to your presence that we may be renewed in our following of Jesus, Who is the Eternal Radiance of Your Face that You have shone into our darkness to show us the way to union with You.
We make our prayer to You through Jesus Christ Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and Your Holy Spirit, One God, for ever and Ever! Amen.
The Eighth Station: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem
Meditation
Jesus tells the women of Jerusalem to weep for themselves and their children rather than for Him because there is coming upon them a time so terrible that women without children will be considered blessed, a time so terrible that people will rather the hills fall on them than that it befall them, a time so terrible that present evil can be compared to it only as green wood is to dry. Some forty years later, after revolting against Rome and fighting to the death even among themselves, the children of these women would be shut up in Jerusalem by Titus, overcome by starvation and attack, their beloved city set afire, and they themselves crucified until the Romans ran out of Wood.
Prayer
Father, grant that our meditation and prayer will prepare us to sustain, with only deepening trust in You, the evils we cannot prevent by anything we are able to do.
The Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
