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THE EIGHTH
STATION
The Women of
Jerusalem mourn for our Lord.
V. We adore thee O Christ and we bless thee,
R. Because by thy Holy Cross you have
redeemed the world.
EVER since the prophecy of old time, that
the Savior of man was to be born of a woman of the stock of Abraham, the Jewish
women had desired to bear Him. Yet, now that He was really come, how different,
as the Gospel tells us, was the event from what they had expected. He said to
them "the days are surely coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren,
and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed." [
Luke 23:29.
NRSV]. Ah, Lord, we know not what is good for us, and what is bad. We cannot
foretell the future, nor do we know, when You come to visit us, in what form You
wilt come. And therefore we leave it all to Thee. Do to us and in us [whatever
pleases you]. Let us ever look at Thee, and do You look upon us, and give us the
grace of Thy bitter Cross and Passion, and console us in Thy own way and at Thy
own time.
Our Father, who art in heaven…
Hail Mary, full of grace…
Glory be to the Father…
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