Saints LightSeventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
The Seventh Station, the second fall, is a traditional meditation on perseverance; written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Pray it when you feel tired of trying.
The prayer
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Even with Simon's help, Jesus falls again. His strength is nearly gone, and the cruelty around him only grows. The second fall is harder than the first, because it comes after he has already tried and already risen. Still he gets up. He shows us that faithfulness is not never falling. It is refusing to stay on the ground when love calls us forward.
Lord Jesus, when I grow weary of trying to be good, renew my strength. Keep me from despair and from giving up on prayer, and teach me to trust your mercy more than my own effort.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Pray it this week
If you have let a habit of prayer slip, pick it up again this week, even if it is only five minutes a day.
More in Stations of the Cross
- Stations of the Cross: Opening Prayer
- First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Death
- Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
- 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
- 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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