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Via Crucis, Felix Anton Scheffler - 1757
Church of Saint Martin - Ischl, Seeon (Diocese of München) - Germany NINTH STATION
Jesus falls for the third time V/. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.
R/. Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. From the Book of the Prophet Habakkuk 1:12-13; 2:2-3 Are you not from of old, O Lord,
my God, my Holy One?
Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
and you cannot look on wrongdoing;
why do you look on the treacherous,
and are silent when the wicked swallow
those more righteous than they? Write the vision,
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay. MEDITATION As Pascal insightfully observed:
Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world;
and we cannot sleep during this time.
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Where is Jesus in agony in our own time?
In the division of our world into belts of prosperity
and belts of poverty ... this is Christs agony today.
Our world is made of two rooms:
in one room, things go to waste,
in the other, people are wasting away;
in one room, people die from surfeit,
in the other, they die from indigence;
in one room, they are concerned about obesity,
in the other, they are begging for charity. Why dont we open a door?
Who dont we sit at one table?
Why dont we realize that the poor
can help the rich?
Why? Why? Why are we so blind?
[1]
B. Pascal,
Pensèes, 553 (ed. Brunswieg).
PRAYER Lord Jesus,
those who live to hoard riches
are the very ones you have called fools!
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Yes, those who think they own anything
are really fools,
since there is but one Owner
of the world.
Lord Jesus,
the world is yours and yours alone.
Yet you have given it to everyone
so that the earth can become a home
where all find nourishment and shelter.
So hoarding riches is robbery,
if their useless accumulation
prevents others from living.
Lord Jesus,
put an end to the scandal
that divides the world
into castles and slums.
Lord, teach us once more the meaning of brotherhood!
[2]
Lk 12:20.
All:
Pater noster, qui es in cælis:
sanctificetur nomen tuum;
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cælo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a malo.
Eia mater, fons amoris,
me sentire vim doloris
fac, ut tecum lugeam.
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