Stations
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Station 13
- Jesus is taken down from the cross |
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| The Scripture Reading | |
| 1 Samuel 19: 1 - 8 1: It was told Jo'ab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Ab'salom." 2: So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son." 3: And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle. 4: The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Ab'salom, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!" 5: Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines, 6: because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Ab'salom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased. 7: Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now." 8: Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate"; and all the people came before the king. |
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| The Mediation & Prayer | |
| To bring down the body a
ladder was set up against the cross. Jacob dreamed of a ladder linking
heaven and earth, the angels of God ascending an descending upon it.
This is what we all seek: a ladder to bring us to heaven.
Jesus erected this ladder; He is himself the stairway to heaven, the means by which we can come to the Father. Every cross we erect; in our churches or in our homes; carried on a chain about our neck or set up by the side of the road; placed by a grave or made in blessing on the head of a new born child, every sign of the cross is a symbol of the true cross - the heavenly ladder by which the Son of Man entered into death and up which He will draw us to share His life. He shared in our death so that we can partake in His life. He bore the punishment which was due to us so that our condemnation to death is commuted to the reward of life. He shed His blood so that we who are impure in our sins can be washed once for all and allowed to enter the glory of heaven. He is the ladder to heaven for us and for the angels. Lord help us to climb ever higher in the way to haven;
uphold us by your cross and let us ascend upon the Son of Man to
the place where your glory dwells.
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