SC-3 – The 6th, 7th, and 8th Stations – Stations of the Cross with Deacon James Keating
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The Stations of the Cross - one of the most powerful devotionals alive in the heart of the Church. Reflecting and deeply meditating on the Passion of the Christ, Deacon Keating guides us through the 6th station (Veronica wipes the face of Jesus), the 7th station (Jesus falls a 2nd time), and the 8th station (Jesus encounters the women of Jerusalem) along the Way of the Cross.
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| 0:00.0 | Discerning Hearts.com presents Stations of the Cross, Reflections with Deacon James Keating. |
| 0:09.7 | Deacon Keating is a professor of spiritual theology at Kenrick Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:16.3 | He formerly served as the director of theological formation at the Institute for Priestly Formation. |
| 0:23.2 | He is also the author of numerous spiritual books, including Heart of the Deaconate, Remain and Me, |
| 0:30.4 | Spousal Prayer, and Listening for Truth. |
| 0:33.9 | He has given more than 400 workshops on moral theology and spirituality nationally and regularly conducts retreats. |
| 0:43.5 | Stations of the Cross, Reflections with Deacon James Keating. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm your host, Chris McGregor. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome back, Deacon Keating. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.1 | We're at the sixth station of the cross. |
| 1:06.5 | St. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. |
| 1:13.3 | We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world. |
| 1:22.3 | Very poignant verse response that we give traditionally at each station of the cross. |
| 1:26.0 | But at this particular one, St. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. |
| 1:30.6 | An encounter with someone he probably has not met, |
| 1:40.3 | and yet she goes towards him for all of us to adore him. Yeah, the stance is one of deep compassion before the identity of God. So she knew intuitively who he was and ran toward him, |
| 1:51.0 | extending her heart to him, really. |
| 1:55.0 | And of course this is what compassion is to suffer with someone. |
| 1:58.0 | She wanted in some way to reach out and touch him and suffer with him |
| 2:01.5 | out of love. And the love, of course, welled up in her because she intuited that who people said |
| 2:11.4 | he was, in truth he really was. He was the son of God. He was God among us. And it was breaking her heart to see love itself |
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