Carrying the cross means you can’t spend all your time displaying your suffering or complaining about it. It means you love until you willingly climb onto the cross and stay there out of love ...

(Matthew 27:31-35; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-18) The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery overlaps ... murder does not want Jesus to die while carrying his cross. They do not want him to ...

Lean on Community The fourth sorrowful mystery, the Carrying of the Cross, encapsulates the heavy burdens we bear. As Jesus carries his cross along his journey to Golgotha, he demonstrates the ...

Cru­cify him!" (Jn 19: 5-6). Carrying his cross, Jesus goes out of the city to the place of the skulls-called Golgotha in Hebrew (Jn 19: 17). And they lay hold of a certain Simon from Cyrene ...

A woman named Egeria, a pilgrim from France, described one such pilgrimage which took place in the fourth ... Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns; Jesus takes up his cross; Simon helps Jesus ...

It is the dirge-like melody of the Stabat Mater we sang verse by verse between each Station: At the cross her station keeping, stood the mournful mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last.