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 Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother.
Meditation
Mary the Mother of Jesus, and John and is mother Salome, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and many other women who followed Jesus, stationed themselves near the Pretorium to meet Jesus as soon as He was brought out so they could stay close to Him all the way to Calvary. They wanted to give Him the only thing they now could: their loving companionship in these last cruel hours of His life. And so it was that they became His prayer partners, as Peter and James and John himself had earlier failed to do in the Garden. They remained the prayer partners of Jesus throughout the final hours of His self-surrender to the Father for the salvation of all peoples.
Prayer
Father, help us to realize from this moment on that it is precisely when we join our seemingly hopeless sufferings to those of Jesus, as did Mary and John and the others, that we become the faithful prayer partners of Jesus.
The Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus
