Today is Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode triumphant into Jerusalem, yet our station shows him on the way out of town in humiliation. The Feast of the Annunciation has been transferred to Monday 9th April, the first free day after Easter Week.
EIGHTH STATION
JESUS FALLS A THIRD TIME
Many of us in England no longer have a fire at home, and if we do, they are safely confined in a proper hearth. In Jesus’ day, there would have been an open fire, easy to fall into, often with disastrous effect. We hear from the father of the boy who fell into the fire or the lake during his epileptic fits.
(Mark 9:14-29).
I had seen my boy fall time and time again.
He was often badly hurt, burnt or nearly drowned.
He could not hear me or speak to me, it was terrible to see, as if he was taken over by the evil one.
Jesus said that faith could save him.
Lord, I have faith, help the little faith I have!
Yes, Lord, though you are down in the dust, and look as though you can never rise, I still have faith in you.
Let us pray :
Lord, help us always to say, Yes I have faith, help the little faith I have.
Help us to get up every time we fall or are pushed over.
Lord in your mercy.
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