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Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. All: Because by your holy cross You have redeemed the world. 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.
Jesus, carrying his cross on the way to Calvary, turns to speak to the women accompanying him (Luke 23:27-31). The scene is more complex than it looks. Who is comforting whom? The women are encouraging Jesus in his suffering, and he is bracing them for what they will have to face themselves.
Jesus takes the level of selflessness up by pushing through the pain to get to the women, and then telling them not to worry about Him. What Jesus is trying to tell the women, is that to Him, their problems are more important than His.
WAY OF THE CROSS 2012. EIGHTH STATION. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, who weep for him . V. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. From the Gospel according to Luke 23:27-28. And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
Eighth Station - Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem who weep for him From the Gospel according to Luke. 23:28-31 Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but...
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. (Genuflect) Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. A large crowd of people followed him; among them were some women who were weeping and wailing for him. Jesus turned to them and said, “Women of Jerusalem! Don’t cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.
Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. The meeting with the women of Jerusalem that gives us the eighth Station is mentioned only by Luke. If he is the evangelist most concerned with conveying compassion and mercy to his readers, then this episode serves that aim. Even in the midst of his own ordeal, Jesus takes the time to address others in distress.
Meeting the women of Jerusalem and casting his gaze of truth and mercy upon them, he accepts every tear of compassion shed for him. The God who wept over Jerusalem [1] now directs the tears of those women away from fruitless outward pity.
A CAFOD reflection on the eighth Station of the Cross, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. What causes us to weep? What situations in the world make us cry out to God?
In this way Jesus shows that he alone truly knows the heart of God the Father and can make it known to us: “No one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Mt 11:27). From earliest times humanity has asked, often with anguish, how God relates to us.