Stations of the Cross

Veronica* wipes the face of Jesus, 

Isaiah 53:2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground, He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Lord, do I sometimes inflate my importance? Do I put my trivial wants before the deep needs of others? Does my self importance get the way of the task to which you call me? To love my neighbour in spite of the dangers I may face?

May my life reflect her actions

Sympathy, concern reaction.

May I  serve you in another

And in serving find my sister

Brother, parent,  friend and child

In Your image, gentle  mild.

© 2020 Paul Collings

* Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a woman of Jerusalem in the first century of the Common Era according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. According to Church tradition, Veronica was moved with sympathy when she saw Jesus carrying his cross to Golgotha and gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead. Jesus accepted the offering, held it to his face, and then handed it back to her—the image of his face miraculously impressed upon it.