EIGHT STATION
JESUS SPEAKS

TO THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM

LEADER: We adore you, O Christ,
and we praise you.

ALL: Because by your holy cross
you have redeemed the world.

LOOKING AT JESUS

Jesus, you trudge forward. You stumble forward. You are more and more numb, more and more dazed by the loss of so much blood. Yet, you keep on seeing faces along the way. And some of those faces are women’s faces. Once more women are sensing the horror and the shock of how cruel we human beings can be to each other.

And Jesus, as you look into the faces of these women along the way of the cross, both of you know what they are feeling, what they are harboring. Both of you know that what is happening to you, could happen to any one of their children. So you reach out with words of concern, “Weep not for me, but for your children.”

8th STATION PRAYER – TEARS

Lord, the road to Calvary seems to be every street. This eight station of the cross seems to happen every day. Help us to weep so deeply, that the ocean of sorrow that fills so many of us, will drown the violence of the world and bring peace