The Stations of the Cross are usually a series of 14 stations. When we think about each of this stations we can start to understand the great love of Jesus Christ, because being the son of God, He accepted to carry the Cross (all the sins of humanity of all times).
Each Station of the Way of the Cross invites us to meditate and think about Jesus Christ’s suffering, His love and mercy. It also encourages to take a look at ourselves, our inner self, our life so that we can clearly see the sins we are carrying as a Cross that does not let us free, that leads us to suffering and to go through a long and painful Via Crucis. But it is also in those Stations with Jesus Christ that we can see our way with hope, faith and the love that let us see the Lord’s sanctuary. > (John Paul II, Salvifici dolorie, 21).
It is Jesus Christ with his face full of pain and suffering, his body bleeding and nailed to a Cross, Who invites us to abandon ourselves to our Father’s will, Who is waiting for us as well as for Jesus Christ in his Kingdom.
Let us not reject Jesus’ loving and merciful invitation to conversion and abandonment into Lord’s arms one more time.
Christ loves us so much that He accepted to be crucified; He knew that in that way, humanity would be able to find a face for that suffering, and would be able to understand better its sense to reach the maturity and the spiritual highness we need to get to Our Father’s Home.
It is by looking towards the Cross that we can see that what hurts is what makes that man is the loved one among all the creatures. Moreover, it is only by looking at the Cross that we will see and understand all Lord’s love, tenderness and mercy.
Let us accompany Jesus Christ through this Way of Sorrows and let us give ourselves the wonderful opportunity to know all Our Father’s LOVE towards us.
