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 Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
Meditation
Jesus taught us to pray to God with perseverance as well as with faith in Him and humility before Him. Nowhere does Jesus more dramatically demonstrate His own perseverance in prayer than His getting up again after every fall so as to make it to Calvary before death could take Him, to the "high place" of crucifixion where He would consummate His own self-sacrifice to the Father for our salvation.
Prayer
Father, grant that with Jesus we too may make the whole of our life a prayer of sacrifice to You for the salvation of all. Whenever we fall before reaching this goal, help us rise again until we do reach it: by the example of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit He sends us from You.
The Tenth Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Clothes
