Leader: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You Īll: Because by Your Holy Cross, You have redeemed the world. First Station – Jesus is Condemned to Death We ask this through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, the first to make this Way of the Cross with You.Īmen. Grant, O Lord, that, through the merits of these prayers and meditations on Your passion and death, Your priests may come to love You more deeply and follow You more faithfully. To this day, this sacrificial nature of Your Holy Priesthood remains unchanged. Leader: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.Īll: Lord Jesus Christ, You entrusted Your Church to the apostles, Your first priests, and willed that they and those who would follow after them should take up their Cross and follow You. As you make the Stations with these meditations, please consider offering them for the sanctification of all priests and their fidelity to their vocation. In writing these short meditations on the priesthood for the Stations of the Cross, we hope to offer you a “window” such as this to look through.
We, as laity, can never enter fully into the mystery of the life of a priest, but we might, on occasion, discover a “window” through which we catch a glimpse or gain a little deeper understanding of his life as he lives it on the road to Calvary with Jesus. But it is a deep reality – a deep and sacred reality – that those ordained to the priesthood will, in persona Christi, lay down their lives for others. Each of us, in a very real sense, is called to live our lives walking with Jesus up the hill of Calvary. It is not possible for any lay person, male or female, to grasp or comprehend fully the sublime vocation to the Sacred Priesthood of Jesus Christ or what it means to live out this calling. Download a pdf of the Stations of the Cross for Priests.
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