Fourteenth Station: The Body of Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
I have buried You many times by refusing to listen. I have buried You by refusing to love others. I have buried You in the noise I create and in the distractions I seek. I have buried You by running from the truth and living in my own illusions. I have buried You by submerging myself in the material things of this world. I have buried you under the dirt and soil of my own pride, greed, and selfishness.
Dear Jesus, I have silenced Your heart of flesh with the hardness of my heart of stone. I have tried to forget that You ever existed by burying You behind a stone. I have tried to forget Your love by pronouncing You dead! I have placed You out of my sight so I do not have to respond to the love that You have so generously given me. Strengthen me now, Lord, through the memory of this journey of love — these Stations of the Cross that I have just walked with you, fill my own emptiness with new hope. Rekindle in my heart the desire to roll away the stone of sin in my life; to remove each day the walls of pride and indifference; to live fully alive now in the joy and goodness of being Your disciple so that everyone may see that You are alive, Lord, and not dead; that you have risen and call us all to live in the glory of Your goodness and truth.
