A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.  Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children."    (Luke 23:27-28)

Jesus wanted to help us by sharing our life, our loneliness, our agony, and death.   All that he has taken upon himself, and has carried it in the darkest night.  Only by being one with us has he redeemed us.  We are allowed to do the same:  All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution must be redeemed, and we must have our share in it.

Pray thus when you find it hard:  "I wish to live in this world which so far from God, which has turned so much from the light of Jesus, to help them — to take upon me something of their suffering."

   -- Saint Teresa of Calcutta

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Proceed to Station IX — Jesus Falls The Third Time.
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