Saints LightSecond Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
The Second Station shows Jesus receiving the cross and setting out for Calvary (John 19:17); written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Pray it when a burden you did not choose has been laid on you.
The prayer
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
The soldiers lay the heavy beam on shoulders already torn by the scourging. Jesus does not push it away. He takes it up and holds it close, as though it were something precious. In a way it is: this wood will become the instrument of our salvation. Every sin of every age weighs on it, and he carries the whole weight willingly, because love does not refuse what the beloved needs.
Lord Jesus, you embraced your cross without complaint. Help me to accept the crosses of my own life, the small ones and the heavy ones, and to carry them with you instead of alone.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Pray it this week
Name one cross you are carrying right now, and each morning this week offer it to Jesus in a single sentence.
More in Stations of the Cross
- Stations of the Cross: Opening Prayer
- First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Death
- Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
- Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
- Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross
- Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
- Seventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
- Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
- Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
- Tenth Station: Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
- Eleventh Station: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
- Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
- Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
- Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
- Stations of the Cross: Closing Prayer
- The whole Prayer Book
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