Stations
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Station 2 -
Jesus takes the Cross |
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| The Scripture Reading | |
| Genesis
22:1-2; 6-8 1: After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I." 2: He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." 6: And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 7: And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8: Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together. 9: When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. |
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| The Mediation & Prayer | |
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the invisible God, the first born of all creation. He holds creation
in His hands. Into those hands is now given the cross. The Thrones
and Dominions and principalities and powers of which S. Paul writes
are understood by Christian tradition as the orders of the angels.
They personify the power and authority of God: power and authority
used by Him to create, to save, to love. The heavenly order shows
us the will of God, ordered and beautiful in its balance and harmony.
The angels in their ordered choirs, thrones and dominations, principalities and powers, look upon our disordered world with its competing powers and ugly struggles and see the peace and beauty of heaven mocked and marred. Authority on earth is used to order a man to carry the instrument of His own torture and death to the the place of execution. But the angels rejoice to see how God brings order out of chaos, good out of evil. Christ will make peace by the blood of His cross: for in him all the fulness of GOd was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile Himself to all things whether in earth and in heaven. Father bring the beauty of your peace to the disorder of
our lives. |
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