How to Meditate on Christ’s Passion

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It is always important to spend time meditating on the Passion of Christ, especially during Lent. But why is it important and what is the best way to meditate on Christ’s Passion? In this episode, Dr. Sri shares about the Stations of the Cross. He describes how, when, and why you should pray them.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:13.9	A Catholic faith is full of so many prayers and devotions.
0:16.6	We have the rosary, the chaplet of divine mercy, we have litneys, we have novenas, we have
0:20.5	prayers to the sacred heart, to marry to the saints.
0:24.3	But do you know what the earliest of all of the Catholic devotions is?
0:28.0	Do you know what one of the most important of all of the Catholic devotions is?
0:32.6	Is what we focus on in this season of Lent?
0:34.9	It's the stations of the cross.
0:38.0	How powerful this prayer is and the church holds up the stations as a profound way to
0:43.4	encounter God.
0:44.4	And yet I think many Catholics are not as excited about the stations of the cross as they could
0:50.6	be.
0:51.6	Maybe you felt that way before you just feel like, wow, the stations, it's awesome, but
0:55.6	man, it just takes forever, it's just too long.
0:58.6	I don't have time to do all the stations of the cross and all those prayers and standing
1:03.4	and kneeling and signing the sign of the cross and I don't have time to drive to the
1:07.4	parish.
1:08.4	And I don't like the fish fry they do afterwards anyway.
1:11.0	So it just doesn't fit in my schedule to fit it into drive to the parish to do this.
1:15.1	I don't know how I can get this in.
1:17.2	Well, I want to encourage you that this prayer is so powerful.
1:21.4	I talked about this last year in Lent because I'll hold a book on this topic called Pocket
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