The Cross is no easy solution

Faced with the weight of all this, a Christian can find only one genuine answer, a definitive answer: Christ on the cross, a God who suffers and dies, a God who gives us his heart opened by a lance for the love of us all. [...]
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Stations of the Cross to download

Stations of the Cross to download Extracts from St Josemaria’s book The Way of the Cross are now available as an illustrated leaflet, in pdf format, to meditate on and share with friends. Download the leaflet in pdf format That is the secret The Founder of Opus Dei used [...]
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Hard times

Sickness, family problems, money worries, annoyances, lasting sadness. Hard times are something everyone has experience of. Can they be sanctified? In Christian life are they an opportunity or an obstacle? Appreciate the good times Most of you here are young. You are passing through that splendid period [...]
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The Seventh Sorrow: the Burial of Jesus

After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who [...]
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The Sixth Sorrow: Christ’s Body is taken down from the Cross

And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and [...]
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The Fifth Sorrow: The Death of Jesus on the Cross

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he [...]
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The Fourth Sorrow: Mary and Jesus meet on the road to Calvary

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull. John 19:17 No sooner has Jesus risen from his first fall than he meets his Blessed Mother, standing by the wayside where He is passing. With immense [...]
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The meaning of suffering

I will tell you which are man’s treasures on earth so that you will appreciate them: hunger, thirst, heat, cold, pain, dishonour, poverty, loneliness, betrayal, slander, prison... The Way, 194 One definitive answer Faced with the weight of all this, a Christian can find only one genuine answer, [...]
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5th Sorrowful Mystery: The crucifixion and death of Jesus

And bearing the cross for himself, he went forth to the place called the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side and Jesus in the center. And Pilate also wrote an inscription and had it [...]
Tags: Abandonment to God, Cross, Obedience, Holy Rosary, Unity

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4th Sorrowful Mystery: The carrying of the cross

And from then on Pilate was looking for a way to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying, “If thou release this man, thou art no friend of Caesar; for everyone who makes himself king sets himself against Caesar.” Pilate therefore, when he heard [...]
Tags: Cross, Holy Rosary, The Way of the Cross