Sixth Station – Veronica offers her veil to Jesus

Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.

All: Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world. 

From the book of the prophet Isaiah 

He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering, knowing pain; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in no esteem (Is 53:2-3). 

Reflection

Veronica, a woman looking on from the crowd, sees the blood and sweat falling down Jesus’ face. She wishes to do something, so she takes a cloth and presses it upon his face. Consider the care and love of St. Joseph for Jesus as a child. With fatherly love, he attended to Jesus’ wounds. With a father’s touch, he wiped the tears of Jesus. 

Dear St. Joseph, pray for us that we may be more aware of those who need help. 

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