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 First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
Meditation
Pilate was eager to release Jesus. He knew that Jesus was innocent and had been handed over to himself as the Governor only because the Chief Priests wanted the hated Romans to take the blame for the death of Jesus in the eyes of the people. But Pilate’s strategies for finding a clever way of releasing Jesus led Him at last into the injustice he did. He was too pragmatic and self-confident a person to have or to trust the simple vision his wife tried to share with him: "Have nothing to do with that Just Man…."
Prayer
Father, free us of our cynicism. Grant that we may always seek the truth and never sacrifice it for success or convenience. Let us be moved to begin all that we would do with our minds and hearts prayerfully open to your will, for Your will alone is what truth is.
The Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
