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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">A Sinner’s Way of
the Cross</strong></h2>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">This Lent comes as
the Church prepares for the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s appearance
at Fatima. After the Year of Mercy, it is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><a target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(238, 238, 238); background-color: transparent" href="http://aleteia.org/2017/02/27/the-year-of-stopping-sinning/"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">a
time to pray</em></a><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for
the conversion of sinners.</em></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">Pope Francis has
said that the most damaging characteristic of our world is that it has
lost the sense of sin. What better way to remember the horror of sin and
the beauty of conversion than to meditate on the Passion of Jesus, who
died for our sins? Here are Way of the Cross meditations on the tragedy
of sin in each life.</em></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Opening prayer:</strong></p>
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Lord Jesus, in obedience to Our Lady of Fatima, I pray today for the
conversion of sinners. As I retrace the steps you took on your way of
the cross, I remember that I, too, am among those sinners who are in
need of conversion.</p>
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Lord, help us understand the gravity of sin and work to root it out in
our lives. As St. Francis of Assisi said: “Since our sins made the Lord
Christ suffer the torment of the cross, those who plunge themselves into
disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their hearts.”</p>
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- See more at:
http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/#sthash.qcYLFFJQ.dpuf</span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">First Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Pilate condemns
Jesus</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">“Crucify him!” they
said. “The verdict of Pilate was that their demand should be granted.”
Luke 23:21, 24</em></p>
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From Eve in the Garden to Pilate in the praetorium, the first step to
sin has always been the same: We turn God into a tyrant, and condemn
him.</p>
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We have before us Jesus, our Lord and friend. He wants to know us and
love us. But we hear other voices, as well. Satan whispers, “Don’t trust
him. He only wants to limit you.” The crowds demand we side with them,
against him. Like Eve, like Pilate, we too easily give in. We pretend
God is a bully and that his kingdom of truth is irrelevant to our lives.</p>
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We tie a sign around him — “King of the Jews” — and send him away.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">Jesus,
when we are tempted to shut out your voice and condemn you, help us
imitate your response to Pilate. Help us stand for love against the
powers of this world. Help us stand with you.</em></p>
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- See more at:
<a href="http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/#sthash.qcYLFFJQ.dpuf">
http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/#sthash.qcYLFFJQ.dpuf</a></span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">The Second Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Jesus Accepts His
Cross</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">“Carrying the cross
himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew,
Golgotha.” John 19:17</em></p>
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Here is our second surrender to sin: We put burdens on our love that it
cannot bear.</p>
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True love doesn’t count the cost — it does everything for the beloved.
Once a lover starts asking, “Why should I help you? Why should I accept
you? How can I get more out of you?” love has started to die. When we
say, “How far can I go? Why shouldn’t I do as I like? Why should God
matter?” love is dying.</p>
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The burden of a calculating, conditional love is a weight too heavy even
for Jesus to bear.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">Jesus,
once we start counting the cost, every ounce of our love is too much.
When temptation comes, give us the grace to imitate how you accepted
your cross, how you gave all for love.</em></p>
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- See more at:
http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/2/#sthash.RgbGznND.dpuf</span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">The Third Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Jesus Falls the
First Time</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">“I was pushed hard,
so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.” Psalm 118:13</em></p>
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“Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of
God?” The Church asked, when we renewed our baptismal promises. We said,
“I do.”</p>
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But now, faced with sin, we do not choose to be children of God. We do
not choose freedom. We choose our old family, the family of sin. We
slink back into the ranks of those who march in lockstep with whatever
whim their appetites demand.</p>
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We knock Jesus to the dust, and we step right over him.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic">Jesus,
sin is never inevitable. Our baptismal grace makes us free to love you
in the face of temptation. Once we take the first tentative steps into
sin, give us the grace of freedom once again: The freedom to stop
sinning. The freedom to love.</em></p>
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- See more at:
http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/3/#sthash.5P0Rk0fn.dpuf</span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Fourth
Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Jesus Meets His
Mother</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">“Standing by the
cross of Jesus [was] his mother.” John 19:25</em></p>
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Every fall of man is met with a loving response from God. At Fatima, the
warning comes from his mother.</p>
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If the celebration is great in heaven over one repentant sinner, then
imagine how great must the sorrow when a soul falls away. Whenever we
stick with our sin, this scene is repeated: Jesus exchanges with his
mother a look of unutterable sadness. And they invite us to stop.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Our
Lady, Refuge of Sinners, you want to lift us out of our misery, redirect
us from our folly, and fortify us against the evil one. Mother of mercy,
look after the poor banished children of Eve!</em></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Fifth Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Simon of Cyrene
Helps Carry the Cross</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">“They met a
Cyrenian named Simon; this man they pressed into service to carry his
cross.” Matthew 27:32</em></p>
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Our most common sin is the sin against the Golden Rule: “Do to others as
you would have them do to you.”</p>
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We twist that so easily to, “Get others to do what you won’t do for
them.” Or, “Do unto others before they do unto you.” In our sin, we
judge people according to how useful they are to us, or what threat they
are to us. We become like the Romans, dragging Simons into our misdeeds.</p>
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But as we use those around us, Jesus sees them for what they are, and
loves them.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Jesus,
teach us to love those around us as you do, embracing and helping them.
Give us the grace to draw them not into sins but into our own life of
love and service at your side, united by your cross.</em></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Sixth Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Veronica Wipes
the Face of Jesus</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">“Just as we have
borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the
man of heaven.” 1 Corinthians 15:49</em></p>
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Or, instead of sinning by using others for their utility, we use them
for pleasure.</p>
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An image of Jesus’s face appeared on Veronica’s cloth. Veronica means
“true image.” But lust makes us objectify others people, turning a True
Image of God into a bit player in our base desire. Then, our sin feeds
off of their sin. We use them (in person or in a picture, in our minds
or in our actions) as long as lust lasts, then cast them off.</p>
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But Jesus stamps his face on everyone he made, saying “What you do to
them, you do to me.”</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Jesus,
when we are tempted to use others for passing physical pleasure, give us
the purity of heart that sees the permanent spiritual value each person
has in your eyes. Help us see your image, and love.</em></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Seventh
Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Jesus Falls the
Second Time</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">“Therefore let any
one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.” 1 Corinthians
10:12</em></p>
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“Do you reject the lure of evil, so that sin may have no mastery over
you?” They asked. “I do,” we said.</p>
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But just as Eve “saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes,” we are easily dazzled by the slick, shiny things
that we know are not for us. The glamour of evil looks so much more
enticing than the sacrificial suffering of Jesus.</p>
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But when we choose a small, gaudy thing over our creator, the weight of
our betrayal is crushing.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lord
Jesus, give us the grace to value the beauty and worth of sacrificial
love over the slick and superficial attraction of the sins we spend our
time with.</em></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Eighth
Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Jesus meets the
women of Jerusalem.</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Jesus said “Do not
weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children.” Luke
23:28</em></p>
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The warning voice that comes after each sin now comes from Jesus
himself.</p>
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He warns us that sin breeds sin. Small rejections of God today spread
and grow tomorrow. “If they do this when the wood is green, imagine what
they will do when it is dry?” He predicts that sin will mount on sin to
build a world where children are seen as a burden. “The days are coming
when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore
and the breasts that never nursed.’”</p>
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He describes where our sin leads: To a culture of death and kingdom of
lies.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lord
Jesus, help us never forget that our lives, and our decisions, do not
affect us alone. Nor do our virtues. Help us become the citizens of the
kingdom of God you need us to be.</em></p>
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http://aleteia.org/2017/03/05/a-sinners-stations-of-the-cross/8/#sthash.y3Z14zO7.dpuf</a></span><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">The Ninth Station</strong></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Jesus falls a
third time.</strong></p>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">“For a righteous
man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by
calamity.” Proverbs 24:16</em></p>
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The Church asked us: “Do you reject Satan, the author and prince of
sin?” We answered “I do.”</p>
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But sometimes we don’t reject him. We know we should, but we just don’t
want to. There is a war in us. “What I do, I do not understand,” says
St. Paul. “I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self … but I
see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind,
taking me captive to the law of sin.” He asks: “Miserable one that I am!
Who will deliver me from this mortal body?”</p>
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Jesus today answers, “I will.”</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Pray:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Lord
Jesus, our sin enslaves us. Our sin builds a kingdom for our enemy. But
you are stronger. You are more lovable. Your grace is sufficient. Come
and save us.</em></p>
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