Stations Of The Cross The Weight Of Glory podcast

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Today, I'm posting a special episode on The Stations of the Cross.
What follows is a Stations of the Cross text I wrote in 2004, reflecting on the images Mel Gibson provided in his movie The Passion of The Christ. Each mediation also includes a quote from one of my favorite spiritual writers.

In the show notes, you'll find links to learn more about the Stations of the Cross, sources for the quotes used in the meditations, and a link to learn more about the album Via Crucis by Dick Le Mair. Many thanks to Le Mair for granting me the rights to include his music in this episode.
How Did the Stations of the Cross Begin? - Fr. William Saunders

“For God So Loved”: C.S. Lewis’s Four Loves and the Doctrine of Christ’s Atonement - Adam J. Johnson

The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis

Text of the meditations inspired by The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson

Quotation sources:

I - Into Your Hands, Father - Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen

II, IX, XII - Via Crucis - Saint Josemaría Escrivá

III - De Interpellatione David - Saint Ambrose of Milan

IV - Salt of the Earth - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

V, VIII - Transformation in Christ - Dietrich von Hildebrand

VI - De pauperum - Saint Gregory of Nazianzen

VII - The Jeweler's Shop - Karol Wojtyla

X - Interior Freedom - Fr. Jacques Philippe

XI - The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) - Saint Pope John Paul II

XIII - The Splendor of Truth (Veritatis Splendor) - Saint Pope John Paul II

XIV - The Lord's descent into hell - ancient homily for Holy Saturday

Closing prayer - Meditations on the Stations of the Cross - Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman

Music: Via Crucis by Dick Le Mair

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Opening (00:03:58)

3. I: Jesus is condemned to death (00:05:18)

4. II: Jesus receives His Cross (00:09:29)

5. III: Jesus falls the first time (00:12:09)

6. IV: Jesus meets His Mother (00:14:40)

7. V: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross (00:19:50)

8. VI: Veronica wipes the Face of Jesus (00:23:33)

9. VII: Jesus falls a second time (00:28:18)

10. VIII: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem (00:30:57)

11. IX: Jesus falls the third time (00:35:32)

12. X: Jesus is stripped of His Garments (00:38:02)

13. XI: Jesus is nailed to the Cross (00:42:34)

14. XII: Jesus dies upon the Cross (00:47:10)

15. XIII: Jesus is laid in the arms of His Blessed Mother (00:54:53)

16. XIV: Jesus is laid in the Tomb (00:58:51)

17. Closing prayer (01:03:24)

18. Outro (01:04:50)

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