VIA CRUCIS XIII. Station: “Jesus is taken down from the Cross”                                   

 

 V. Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi (We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee)

R. Quia per Crucem tuam redemisti mundum (For by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.)

Once again we meet Mary on the Way of the Cross, as well as at the Fourth Station and at the foot of the Cross.

God wanted her Son, whom she bore, to be placed on her lap again after His death, before He descended into the Kingdom of the dead to announce the Good News to those who awaited Him there, so that they too might receive the grace of Redemption.

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NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO NOR PRACTICING SLANDER

 

“Calumny only harms those who take it to heart” (St. Francis de Sales).

One of the most terrible offences that we humans inflict on each other is slander. In other words, it is the very common vice of speaking ill of other people. If we look at it more closely, it is a kind of psychological homicide against the person in question. Unfortunately, it is not just something that happens from time to time. We have even witnessed a kind of ‘public execution’ of people through the media and, nowadays, through the Internet.

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