Ave Maria!
Topic: Second Station – Jesus Accepts the Cross
Quote:
Venerable Mary of Agreda
??The image of [Mary’s] divine Son, thus wounded, defiled and bound, remained so firmly fixed and imprinted in the soul of our Queen, that during her life it was never effaced, and remained in her mind as distinctly, as if She were continually beholding Him with her own eyes.??
Mystical City of God, Volume III (Tan Books: 2006), 573.
Meditation:
Pontius Pilate,
??Behold the Man!??
Father Faber
??[V]erily there was need that some one should testify that He was man, who, if He had been only Man could never have survived the crushing of the winepress which the threefold pressure “of His Father, of demons, and of men??had inflicted upon Him. Then rose over the crowded piazza that wild yell of blasphemous rejection by His own people, which still rings in our ears, still echoes in history, still dwells even in the savage frightfulness of its reality.??
The Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books: 1978), 206.
Resolution:
One time today, when presented with a difficulty or with my Lenten resolution, I will try to be like Our Lady who silently and courageously accepted the Cross of Her Son and united Her heart to it.
Marian Vow:
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
??No other grace can be compared with that of carrying the cross out of love for our Lord.??
The Thoughts and Saying of Saint Margaret Mary, (Tan Books: 1986), 79.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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