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JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME
We adore You, O Christ and we praise You. Because by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world.
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Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father.
May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, Rest in peace. Amen.
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MEDITATION: Jesus weakened by all His suffering, stumbles and falls
on the way to Calvary. He stuggles and rises, despite His pain, to go
onward toward His death.
Jesus, the cross you have been carrying is very heavy. You are
becoming weak and almost ready to faint, and you fall down. Nobody
seems to want to help you. The soldiers are interested in getting home,
so they yell at you and try to get you up and moving again.
As a child, sometimes I start to do something, but then get tired of it.
I hurry to get finished and sometimes don't do my work well.
Sometimes I don't pay attention to what I should be doing. When
things get hard for me, sometimes I give up.
As an adult, I sometimes put things off. I give up too easily, and
sometimes don't do my work as well as I know I can.
My Jesus, the heavy burden of my sins is on Thee, and bears Thee
down beneath the cross. I loathe them, I detest them; I call on Thee to
pardon them; my Thy grace aid me never more to commit them.
