2025 LENTEN REFLECTIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE  

EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM EASTERN LIEUTENANCY

 

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Stations of the Cross for Peace

Prayer & Reflection

for the Second Friday in Lent

Jesus takes up his cross

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

Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

How perverse, how sadistic it is to make the condemned carry the instrument of their own execution. Yet while others recoil from their cross, Jesus embraces the rough, splintering beam – like a soldier being issued with the weapon that can bring his deliverance. As the jagged cross cuts through his skin, Jesus momentarily closes his eyes in prayer before taking the first steps towards Calvary.

At the outbreak of war, people instinctively reach for different things – for loved ones, for food and water, for weapons, for news… In the face of danger would my first thought be for my own self-preservation or of solidarity with the suffering and the weak?

Silent reflection

Prayer

Lord, grant us a feeling of dislocation. I love you, Jesus, my love above all things. I repent with my whole heart for having offended you. Never permit me to separate myself from you again. Grant that I am may love you always and then do with me whatever you wish. Amen.

 

This reflection and photo have been taken from the Stations of the Cross for Peace between Israel and Palestine published by the Diocese of Westminster, 2023.