The Way of the Cross in pictures

07/04/2022

The Way of the Cross in pictures

The two novices from the European Novitiate in Rome, Marie-Amélie and Victoriia, have prepared a meditation on the Stations of the Cross in the form of pictures and thoughts of St Angela.  To do it, they took pictures of the Stations of the Cross, that are in the chapel of the Generalate.

 

1. JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH

“My Lord, light up the darkness of my heart. I pray that you receive my free will, every act of my own will which by itself because it is infected by sin, does not know how to discern good from evil.” (St Angela Merici)

2. JESUS RECEIVES THE CROSS

“I deeply regret that I have been so slow to begin to serve your divine Majesty, nor have I ever been obedient to your divine precepts and every adversity has been hard for me because of the littleness of my love for You.” (St Angela Merici)

3. JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME

“Lord, give me the grace to die rather than ever today offend Your divine Majesty”. (St Angela Merici)

4. JESUS IS MET BY HIS BLESSED MOTHER

“Be bound to one another by the bond of charity, for if you strive to be like this, without any doubt, the Lord God will be in your midst. You will have in your favor our Lady.” (St Angela Merici)

5. THE CROSS IS LAID UPON SIMON OF CYRENE

“Tell them that now I am more alive than I was when they saw me in the flesh, and that now I see them and know them better. And can and want to help them more.” (St Angela Merici)

6. VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS

“And strengthen my affections and senses so that they do not stray, neither to right nor to left, nor turn me away from that dazzling face of Yours which contents every afflicted heart.” (St Angela Merici)

7.  JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME

“I deserve to be devoured alive in hell, seeing in myself so many errors, so much ugliness and vileness, so many monstrous and frightful wild beasts and shapes. Therefore I am compelled, day and night, to beg for mercy and time for penance.” (St Angela Merici)

8. THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM MOURN FOR OUR LORD

“Lord, in place of those poor creatures who do not know you and do not care to be partakers in your most sacred Passion, my heart breaks and willingly if I could I would shed my own blood to open the blind eyes of their minds.” (St Angela Merici)

9. JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME

“Deign, o most loving Lord, forgive me my so many offenses, and every fault that I have ever committed from the day of my holy baptism to this hour.” (St Angela Merici)

10. JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS

“Alas! How grieved I am that, entering into the secret of my heart, for shame I dare not raise my eyes to heaven.” (St Angela Merici)

11. JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS

“Deign also to forgive sins, alas, of my father and mother and of my relatives and friends, and of the whole world.” (St Angela Merici)

12. JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS

“I implore this of you by your most sacred Passion and your precious Blood shed for love of us and by your holy Name, be it blessed above the sands of the seas, above the drops of the waters, above the multitudes of the stars.” (St Angela Merici)

13. JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS

“So then, o my Lord, my only life and hope, I pray that You deign to receive this most vile and impure heart of mine, and burn away its every affection and passion in the fiery furnace of your divine love.” (St Angela Merici)

14. JESUS IS PLACED IN THE TOMB

“Receive my every thought, word and deed, everything that is mine finally, both interior and exterior. All this I lay down as an offering at the feet of your divine Majesty. And I pray that you deign to receive it even though I am unworthy of this.” (St Angela Merici)