Praying the Stations of the Cross with St Josemaria Escriva

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei, Christianity, Spirituality, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Gospel

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🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Praying the Stations of the Cross with St. Josemaria Escriva is an invitation and guide to praying and contemplating the traditional fourteen stations following the way of Jesus Christ’s passion and death. Like the original, this adaptation of St. Josemaria’s beloved devotion, The Way of Cross, seeks to help people to pray and, with God's grace, to grow in a spirit of reparation and of gratitude to Our Lord, who has rescued us at the cost of his blood. Physical copies of Praying the Stations...

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0:00.0	May you seek Christ, may you find Christ, may you get to know and deal with Christ, may you fall in love with Christ, and then may you bring him everywhere.
0:16.1	These words of St. Hose Maria are like a program for the whole Christian life. Getting to know our
0:24.0	Lord, loving him, being loved by him, and then sharing that love with everyone, always and everywhere.
0:33.9	That's the Christian apostolic vocation. That's what it is to be a Catholic, a beloved daughter or son of God.
0:42.3	And we get to know and love and be loved by Christ in a special way when we meditate on his passion.
0:50.3	Why do the stations of the cross?
0:55.0	Why meditate on the way of the cross?
0:57.0	And why has this devotion been so cherished by Christians for so many centuries?
1:03.0	Indeed, from the very beginning, the holy places associated with the passion of our Lord were treasured, were marked, were reverenced by our first brothers and sisters in the faith.
1:13.6	And then over the centuries, the devotion that we know today as the Stations of the Cross or the Way of the Cross gradually developed
1:22.6	such that it is now a fixture in every single Catholic Church.
1:28.3	The erection of the Stations of the Cross are part of the setting up of any Catholic Church,
1:34.3	any Catholic Oratory or chapel.
1:37.3	Why meditate on the Stations of the Cross?
1:41.3	Why accompany our Lord on the way of the cross? Well, three reasons immediately
1:47.0	come to mind. First of all, because Jesus Christ in his passion reveals to us who God is.
1:56.0	Jesus Christ is the word, the definitive and full revelation of who God is.
2:05.8	As Pope Francis has said, Jesus Christ is the face of the Father's mercy.
2:12.9	Jesus himself says it to the Apostle Philip at the Last Supper.
2:17.2	Philip, he who sees me, sees the Father.
2:21.4	So to get to know God, to know who God is,
2:25.3	the book, the word, the revelation, the manifestation of God is, is Christ.
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