The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
VIA CRUCIS.
Sympathy-The Second Fall--The Women of
Jerusalem Consoed.
(Contributed.)

SIXTH STATIoN--veronica wipes the face of
Jesus.
As Jesus proceeds on the way, covered with
the sweat OF death, woman, moved with
passion, makes her way through the crowd, and
with a cloth wipes his blessed face. As reward
OF her piety the impression of his sacred coun-
tenance is miraculously imprinted on it. What
bright picture amidst all the gloom of the Via
Crucis kindly woman. moved with sorrow.
wipes the sweat from his divine face. and what
blessed reward. The sacred face of the Christ Is
imprinted the cloth. The sanity Veronica is
but the type of our Religions, those nobf
sisters Of the church, whose duty and Heaven
bless them whose pleasure it is TO tend the sick,
the poor and the ignorant and wipe from their
brows the sweat of sickness and of death, and
they. too. receive as their reward the impress of
the Saviour's face upon their hearts and the sub
Unity of countenance which belongs alone to the
Blessed mother of God and her piofs imitators
earth. Go into our hospitals on our b8tlefelds.
our jails and in the haunts of vice, ard YOU will
find Veronicas there. in robes Of black. with the
rosary and crucfx hanging from their waists,
trying to wipe the sweat from their Saviour's
brow. and oh. Jesus: owing to,thy power and thy
blessed Mothers pity. they succeed Veronica
succeeded in wipng the sweat from thy blessed
brow the journey TO Calvary
As Veronica wiped the brow of Jesus pure and
holy.
So do our sisters te1ld the sick and help the poor
and lowly.
SEVENTH STATION-Jesus falls beneath His
cross the second time.
The pain of His wound and the loss Of blood
increasing at every step on His way, again His
strength fails Him, and Jesus falls to the ground
a second time
We have gone to confession. have carried out
pcnance, felt firm in strength, but To-
we have taken other devils to ourselves and our
last state is worse than the first. We saw Thee
oh .esusi scourged, crowned with thorns. spit up
III III
part of Thy cross that we BY patience and
holy living might ease thy burden, but we depend
ed not on the beatifed one. the interces-
sion of our divine lady Of victories. bat on our
miserable. weak sinful selves and We fell. sweet
jesus causing Thee 10 fall second time upon Thy
awful Journey to Calvary. Oh. what divine pa
thence Thou dost ever show to Thy weak and err
ing children merciful Christ, give US yet more
opportunity to show Thee the sincexity of our
gratitude for all the agony Thou hast undergone
and dost still undergo at hands daily. Pre-
serve US from every relapse. into sin. and do thou
sweet Mother of God, interccde with thy blessed
Son for strength to help us bear our cross with
meekness and Joy.
gain He falls, through our fault;
VIII we then never learn
To cling more firmly to the cross
And satan's snares to Supra
EIGHTH STATION--Jesus consoles the women
Of Jerusalem.
AT the sight of the suferings of Jesus some
holy women in the crowd were so touched with
that they openly bewailed and lamented
His deplorable condition Jesus. knowing the
things that were to come to pass upon Jerusalem
because OF their rejection of Him, turned to them
and said, Daughters Of Jerusalem, weep not for
me, but weep for yourselves and children.
Our eyes are filed with tears, we groan in an
guish. and bow in deep sorrow as we see the cruel
of our Divine Redee1ner His awful
journey TO Calvary but He. knowing that we, like
the people of Jerusalem, will deny Him. looks pit
eously upon us and says. Weep not for me. but
for yourselves and children" and reply, "We
have never denied Thee, Lord Alas. brother, we
derry the Crucifed One in many ways and daily.
We are in a mixed assemblage; some one makes a
sneering remark about our holy church; do We re-
sent it (. No, we sit silent and thus deny Ill the
most cowardy way our Lord and Master. We are
going on our way TO or from business. The clock
strikes the noon hour. Do we take time TO say TO
ourselves "the angelus!" No. we not spare
the time Again we deny the crucifed One, by re-
fusing to call to our memory the annunclation,
the acceptance and the incarnation We more Oft
en- deny our Lord through the sins OF omission
than commissions but the awful fact still remains
we DENY Him Dear Saviour fountain of COMPASS
SION teach us to sec how easy it is to boldly at
firm our faith in Thee. and do thou, sweet Queen
IF Heaven through thy loving intercession, lift
Is ND each time we stumble.
weep not for me- the Saviour cried:
Look into thy own heart.
.'Tis easy Jesus to deny
And nlav Ju]as part.