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 Seventh Station: Jesus Falls a Second Time
Meditation
To humble oneself means to come down to earth, all the way down to the dirt; and this is what Jesus did quite literally when He fell to the ground again and again, falling down not just on all fours, but as low as possible, flat on His face. In His prayer for us, His sacrifice of Himself to God for us, the Sinless One took the posture we sinners should take before God. He did not cling to His equality with God but emptied Himself out, becoming One of us, and lower still, taking the form of the slave of all, humbling Himself obediently to death, even to death on a Cross, suffering all the degradation of such a death.
Prayer
Father, Jesus taught us to pray with humility, not just in the words of His parables, but in the deeds of His sacrifice for us. Grant that we may humble ourselves with Him, so that with Him we may be exalted to Your right hand.
The Eighth Station: Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem
