Thirteenth Station: The Body of Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross

I have had the courage to crucify You and watch You die. Will I have the courage to hold Your torn Body in the poor, the sick, and the rejected? Will I have the compassion to hold Your Body in those I find difficult to love? Will I have the courage to love myself as You have loved me?

Dear Jesus, I am grieved as I see and feel the wounds I cause. Can You heal them? My blindness and selfishness have caused You so much grief. And now, Lord, I only desire to place all of my burdens at the foot of Your Cross and to continue on as You would have me live at this time. Teach me to value the things that really matter, and to surrender those things that separate me from Your love. Help me, Lord, to know and to do Your holy will each day.

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