Part 3: The Way of the Cross: Christ's Sorrows

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What does it mean to be healed by the wounds of Christ? And, through understanding this saving mystery, how can we make reparation and show our love for the body of Christ? In this podcast, Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha continues our Lenten podcast series contemplating Christ as a Man of Sorrows. Looking to the example of Christ, we come to realize that his suffering and Cross are also an essential part of our own biography as we cannot fully understand our past, present, and future without looking a...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:05.4	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:16.5	I adore you with profound reverence. I ask you for pardon of my sins
0:22.5	and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:27.5	My mother immaculate,
0:30.4	St. Joseph, my father and Lord,
0:34.2	my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:45.0	In the way, St. Maria writes in christ we have every ideal for he is king he is god he is love and we can begin our prayer by adoring our Lord.
0:56.0	You Jesus are our king,
0:59.0	you are our God,
1:01.0	and you are our love.
1:04.0	You are our every ideal.
1:06.0	And in the way of the cross,
1:09.0	in the contemplation of your passion, we come to terms with what it means to say that you are our king, our God and our love.
1:18.6	As we accompany you towards the cross, we come to realize what kind of kingship is yours,
1:25.6	what kind of God you are, and how great is your love.
1:33.4	It's so helpful for us to contemplate the Lord in his passion. It really gives life to our soul
1:41.6	and it gives us the strength to try and respond to such a great love.
1:48.2	And there are many ways as we know of contemplating Jesus in his passion, especially during Lent,
1:55.7	the way of the cross, which is what these meditations are based around, bearing in mind the publication of the way of the cross of St. Rosemaria, Scriva 40 years ago.
2:07.6	Doing the way of the cross in our church, in our parish or at home or wherever brings to life who is our king, our God and our love, who you are, Lord Jesus.
2:24.0	We come to know you intimately through the reality of your passion.
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