The Way of the Cross

by Archbishop Georg Ganswein

Overview

For centuries, the Church has encouraged us to pray the Stations of the Cross as a way to draw closer to Christ and gain the strength to carry our own crosses by meditating on His Passion. Yet even while doing so, many of us have had trouble imagining and contextualizing the sorrowful events of that day and even the horrid details of the Crucifixion.

In these prayerful pages, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, remedies that failure of our imaginations. Here he vividly depicts Jesus' final, slow, sorrowful passage through the narrow, dusty streets of Jerusalem, out the gate in the city's wall, and unto Golgotha, where our Lord is crucified.

With the help of these powerful meditations, you'll come to feel as if you've been transported all the way back to Jerusalem, to that grim day in A.D. 33, and stand there now, a direct witness to it.

Archbishop Gänswein's stunning reflections on the Stations of the Cross will give life to your own Stations of the Cross devotions and awaken in you a love and sympathy for our Lord greater than any you have felt before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644133088
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Paul Badde is a historian and journalist. He is a former editor of the German newspaper Welt and is currently a Rome correspondent for EWTN.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Baroness Nina Sophie Heereman von Zuydtwyck 3

1 Station: Jesus is condemned to death 9

2 Station: Jesus shoulders the Cross 13

3 Station: Jesus falls the first time under the Cross 17

4 Station: Jesus meets His Mother 21

5 Station: Simon helps Jesus to carry the Cross 25

6 Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus 29

7 Station: Jesus falls the second time under the Cross 33

8 Station: Jesus meets the weeping women 37

9 Station: Jesus falls the third time under the cross 41

10 Station: Jesus is stripped of His garments 45

11 Station: Jesus is nailed to the Cross 49

12 Station: Jesus dies on the Cross 53

13 Station: Jesus is taken down from the Cross 57

14 Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb 61

Appendix: Prayers 65