Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem

Station Eight

– Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem –

Jesus, as you carry your cross you see a group of women along the road. As you pass by you see they are sad. You stop to spend a moment with them, to offer them some encouragement. Although you are have been abandoned by your friends and are in pain, you stop and try to help them.

Sometimes we act like children. We become so absorbed in ourselves and in what we’d like that we forget about the needs of others. We take them for granted, and often ignore their needs.

Help us to think more about others. Help us to remember that others have problems, too. Help us respond to them even when we’re busy or preoccupied with our own problems.

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Teach your church, O Lord, to mourn the sins of which it is guilty and to repent and forsake them, that, by your pardoning grace, the results of our inequities may not be visited upon our children and our children’s children: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.