{"id":5847,"date":"2023-04-01T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:23:20","slug":"way-of-the-cross-for-the-healing-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=5847","title":{"rendered":"Way of the Cross for the healing of families."},"content":{"rendered":"
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God so loved the world that he gave us his Son to redeem us. He was born and raised in a family to sanctify the family. Family is the place where love gives birth to live. Today, the family is increasingly deviating from its original purpose, and this has dire consequences for human society and the Church. With this devotion to the Way of the Cross, we want to pray for the healing of our families.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

1st stop: Crucify him!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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So-called the masses were manipulated by high priests and scribes. They didn’t know what they were shouting, but they were shouting.\u00a0Such is mob psychosis.\u00a0The media is attacking the family with vicious force.\u00a0Magazines, newspapers, TV programs, series, and movies are destroying it… They want to tell everyone that peaceful family life is no longer in fashion, nor are happy marriages… Don’t let the devil take over your family! Fight for it now… before it’s too late.<\/h2>\n

2nd stop: He takes the cross.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

He takes the cross to save us, to rescue us from the power of the devil.\u00a0Now he calls us to be instruments of salvation for our families.\u00a0Husband, wife, father, mother, children, unmarried, widows, all who belong to the family.\u00a0When we read about Christian armor, we see that God’s most powerful weapons are available to those who read the Bible and practice it, participate in Holy Mass and the Eucharist, pray individually and together as a family, pray the rosary, belong to a prayer group… Spiritual life causes faith to grow in the heart.<\/h2>\n

3rd stop: First fall.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first fall at the very beginning of the Way of the Cross.\u00a0In every marriage, despite good intentions and correct actions, there will be a crisis.\u00a0Differences in character, a different understanding of the world between men and women, and differences inherited and acquired through upbringing divide the spouses who only recently promised to be one. Screens and the advice of so-called friends advise divorce because now is the time. Don’t be mistaken, don’t be misled.\u00a0Save your family!<\/h2>\n

4th stop: Meeting with the Mother.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This was no ordinary meeting.\u00a0That was a deep identification with obedience, love, and pain. The Mother of God also accompanies us on our life’s journey.\u00a0He also understands us and experiences every pain with us.\u00a0The most correct thing we can do is to entrust ourselves and our family to her and ask for her protection.\u00a0After all, she also lived in the family and understands our problems and difficulties very well.\u00a0The Holy Family experienced great trials – poverty, persecution, and misunderstanding. She experienced all this in trust in God’s help and protection.<\/h2>\n

5th stop: Who will help us carry the cross?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We have the most faithful Friend who offers himself, no one forces him like Simon.\u00a0God is waiting for us and wants to let us experience miracles.\u00a0Whether God will heal us of our weakness or not, whether He will deliver us from our temptation or not, whether He will cause our spouse to be kinder to us or not, is not the decisive question.\u00a0The important thing is that God speaks to us and calls us his friends – completely undeservedly and incomprehensible – because Christ took all our suffering and every trial of human life upon himself for us.<\/h2>\n

6th stop: Veronika was brave.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Out of all those people and compassionate women, she was the only one who did not hesitate to be different, did not hesitate to stand out from the crowd, and was not afraid to show her inner feelings outwardly. What about us, what about our family?\u00a0Are we afraid to confess to Christ and accept another child because it is no longer fashionable?\u00a0Are we ashamed to work honestly and still drive an old car?\u00a0Do we dress according to the latest fashion, just so as not to stand out from others, although we know that our dress often borders on defiant indecency? And what else do we not keep from God’s commandments for fear of being different?<\/h2>\n

7th stop: Repeated fall.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Vicious circle.\u00a0Unrecognized domestic work.\u00a0Banality, stereotype, boredom.\u00a0We look for an escape at work, in the company of colleagues, we build collectives, and our family stays somewhere else.\u00a0Then we have nothing to say, we don’t have time for our children, we entrust them to kindergartens and groups and maybe just the street… Where did we get to, where did we find ourselves?\u00a0Our family is on its knees!\u00a0Let’s wake up before it’s too late!\u00a0We ask for the strength to rise again.\u00a0It is worth fighting for your family.\u00a0God is on our side, he will help us start again.<\/h2>\n

8th stop: Jesus does not condemn women’s sympathetic cries.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jesus does not condemn the sympathetic cries of women, he only directs them. Crying is perhaps a good start to your transformation. But just crying is not enough. It is good that we see the problems we have in our family. It is good that we do not remain indifferent to them. However, it is not enough to cry, complain, swear, or break plates. You need to start working on yourself. If I want to change my family, I have to start with myself. I can’t see, and I don’t know how? I have to get down on both knees and beg: Come, Holy Spirit, and let me see my sins and know how to correct myself.<\/h2>\n

9th stop: The most painful fall.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The most painful fall is just below the top. The very bottom of the last forces.\u00a0Jesus is still rising.\u00a0He is raised by love and obedience to the Father.\u00a0What destroys our families the most?\u00a0Infidelity, divorce, abortion, alcohol, drugs?\u00a0These are very painful experiences.\u00a0There would not be such consequences if we removed their causes early on disobedience to God and parents, egoism, pride, greed, envy, self-indulgence, consumerism, and comfort. Let’s not look so much for what the world offers us, but let’s turn our spiritual eyes to God and figure out what is most important for our family.<\/h2>\n

10th stop: Undressing.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Undressing.\u00a0Jesus also accepted this humiliation.\u00a0They tore off the dusty, blood-soaked clothing from the battered, battered, spat-on bloody body.\u00a0He had nothing left.\u00a0Oh, Jesus! How are undressing and dressing in our families? We allow ourselves to be undressed by fashion, dubious contests of dubious beauty, and we look at scantily clad girls who are not even aware of their humiliation when they allow themselves to be photographed and looked at like this… We buy more and more perfect screens for our homes and with them more and more opportunities to sinfully look at the exposed body and bodies… What’s going on? Shouldn’t the body be a sanctuary, a temple of the Holy Spirit?<\/h2>\n

11th stop: They nailed him to the cross.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

They nailed him to the cross.\u00a0Nails or love for us?\u00a0Love kept him there, out of love for us he did not come down from the cross, out of love for us he bled and died on it.\u00a0He gave us everything.\u00a0Both your body for food and your Mother for our mother. And it is still given to us.\u00a0He took nothing back.\u00a0Living together in a family is based on love.\u00a0We are to love one another with the love that God loves us.\u00a0A love that gives itself and asks nothing in return.\u00a0With a love that wants to give, a love that wants to forgive and then again and again and again, always, seventy-seven times… It’s not easy, and it’s very demanding, but with Christ everything is possible.<\/h2>\n

12th stop: Death on the cross.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Death on the cross.\u00a0The sun darkened.\u00a0The earth shook and the rocks cracked.\u00a0Those who saw this were very frightened and said, “He was truly the Son of God.” A death in the family will also cause such a small earthquake in the lives of other family members.\u00a0A person left and an empty place remained.\u00a0For a certain time, our sun will stop shining.\u00a0And even a stone heart sheds a tear.\u00a0Maybe only then will we realize that this person was a great gift to us. And we can’t tell him now.\u00a0We can’t undo anything.\u00a0Well, I can do one thing: I can love more those I still have here and look forward to meeting in eternity with the one who preceded me there.\u00a0Thank you, Lord, for believing in you and for believing in eternal life.<\/h2>\n

13th stop: The dead body of Jesus rests in the Mother’s arms.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The dead body of Jesus rests in the Mother’s arms.\u00a0M\u00e1ria pronounced her FIAT and lives it still.\u00a0He confirms it even now.\u00a0She is a woman of amazing faith and trust in God.\u00a0He suffers a lot, but he suffers in silence.\u00a0He embraces the dead body of his Son and in it embraces all of us.\u00a0We thank you, Lord, that we can be members of your Mystical Body, and that we can rest in the arms of your Mother. Her arms are the safest haven for our souls and our whole family. Mary, we run to you, be the Queen of our families, be the Queen of our family too!<\/h2>\n

14th stop: Jesus is placed in the tomb.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

They put Jesus in the tomb.\u00a0Well, he didn’t stay there.\u00a0Here begins the most joyful news: He rose on the third day!\u00a0He finished his work, fulfilled the will of the Father, conquered death, and rose from the dead! If there was no resurrection, our faith would be meaningless.\u00a0We would have no hope and there would be no meaning to our life or our sacrifices and suffering.\u00a0Graves and cemeteries do not have to be a place of sadness for a Christian, but a place where our hope is strengthened and grows.\u00a0The hope is that the greatest desire of the human soul will be fulfilled – eternal life in the loving arms of our God in the community of those we loved here.<\/h2>\n

Conclusion:<\/em>\u00a0Lord Jesus, we thank you that you sanctified the human family with your birth and that we were included in the family of God through baptism.\u00a0We beg you, multiply our faith and trust in you, and heal our souls and our families. Pour out your love on us, that we may love one another as you have loved us.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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