Part 2: The Way of the Cross: Christ's Falls

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What is it like to see an adult who falls or has fallen to the ground?… And what does it mean for Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to fall to the ground? Continuing our Lenten series on the Way of the Cross, Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha reflects in this podcast on the tangible way God’s love is shown through his falls and physical weakness along the way to his crucifixion and death. Christ embraces his humanity and falls down out of love and solidarity with us to show that he is intimately involved in ...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,
0:12.6	that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:27.9	My mother immaculate, St. Joseph, my father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:39.6	May you seek Christ, may you find Christ, may you deal with Christ, may you fall in love with Christ,
0:51.1	and then may you bring him everywhere.
0:58.2	Those are words that St. Jose Maria at times especially as a young priest
1:01.8	would write on the fly leaf of a book about Christ
1:05.6	a life of Christ or perhaps a book about the passion
1:09.3	when he was giving it to somebody he'd add in
1:12.4	those words almost like a wish or a prayer for the person to whom he was giving that book
1:17.6	and in some way those words sum up the whole Christian life and they sum up the journey towards holiness may you seek
1:30.8	Christ may you find Christ may you deal with Christ may you listen to him may you speak to
1:38.5	him may you live with him may you love Christ or may you fall in love with Christ and may you bring him everywhere
1:48.5	I suppose those different stages are verbs they're not all distinct they're not watertight
1:56.8	compartments they all run into one another seeking our Lord our Lord, finding our Lord, loving our Lord,
2:03.1	speaking with our Lord, and sharing our Lord with everybody around us. That all happens at one
2:08.9	at the same time. And that's what we're doing now in this period of prayer, basing ourselves above
2:15.3	all on the contemplation of the way of the cross.
2:19.3	Indeed, I guess St. Hussein Maria's work published posthumously the way of the cross
2:25.6	40 years ago is a testimony to his constant desire really to help people to get to know and love our Lord.
2:38.3	The Christian life is not, as we know, a series of rules,
2:44.5	nor is it simply a moralism of some kind,
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