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INEXHAUSTIBLE JOY

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“Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound” (Ps 4:7).

Earthly pleasures, though they may stimulate and even delight our senses, pass quickly and then have to be repeated. Spiritual pleasures, on the other hand, leave a deep impression on our soul and are capable of shaping it. If we seek earthly pleasures too intensely, we run the risk of becoming dependent on them and seeking spiritual joys less and less. Therefore, while we may enjoy “grain and wine”, we should do so only to the extent that they do not become too valuable to us and we do not lose sight of the true joys.

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

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 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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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO NOR PRACTICING SLANDER

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“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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VIA CRUCIS – XII. Station: “Jesus dies on the Cross”                                   

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 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.)

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46).

“It is finished” (Jn 19:30).

These are two of the words we hear from the mouth of Jesus before He expired, according to the testimony of the Gospels.

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

I HAVE TAKEN POSSESSION OF YOU

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‘In my love, I have taken possession of you. You are mine!’ (Inner Word).

We know a similar phrase in Sacred Scripture: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine” (Is 43:1). And St Paul exclaims: “Nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:39).

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VIA CRUCIS – XI Station: “Jesus is nailed to the Cross”        

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 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.)

The Lord’s suffering becomes increasingly acute. He has already walked the way that led Him to Calvary, accompanied by mockery and insults, but also by the compassion and consolation He experienced in the encounter with His Mother, with Veronica and with the women of Jerusalem.

His executioners, however, feel no compassion and carry out their task with cruelty. Now they nail Jesus to the cross, like a lamb led to the slaughter (cf. Is 53:7). Defenseless, they drive the nails through Him. The pain increases more and more.

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

NEVER LOSE HEART

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“Never lose heart. God is with you and will never leave you” (Inner Word).

There is no doubt that we Christians are called to fight a battle, and it is coming to a head in an increasingly anti-Christian world, with its politics and mentality. But it is not only visible tribulations that we face. As St Paul tells us, our struggle is against “the principalities and powers” (Eph 6:12), that is, against the spirits of evil, the fallen angels, whom we must fight with the power of the Lord. To this battle are added various inner afflictions that come from our soul, as well as the experience of our own weakness and all kinds of limitations and trials.

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VIA CRUCIS – X Station: “Jesus is stripped of His garments”        

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 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.)

It was not enough for the executioners charged with killing Jesus to crucify Him. They wanted to humiliate Him even more by stripping Him of His clothes.

We men are stripped of our dignity when we sin.  While grace envelops us with God’s light and transforms us with divine life, sin tears the robe of grace and dishonours us, so that we are left naked and unprotected, endangering our dignity.

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In 3 Minutes for God the Father

WHY WORRY IF GOD IS THERE?

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“I understand that someone suffers or is afflicted, but why worry if God is there?” (Venerable Anne de Guigné).

These words come from the mouth of a very young saint. It was Anne de Guigné herself who said: “Nothing is difficult if you love God”. Here we find a saintly simplicity that just assimilated the teachings of the Lord and allowed them to penetrate her soul. In this way they became a natural reality for Anne.

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