We continue with our journey to the Cross on Calvary with these next two Stations.
The Ninth Station
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME
Jesus fell three times, the Scriptures tell us. Why? Was there a reason beyond pain and exhaustion? Maybe this third fall was for us, that we might find strength in his weakness and might not fall ourselves. Or, if we do fall, we might love him whose battered face and pain filled eyes cast the look of love our way - and who picks us up because he fell bearing a Cross of love.
The Tenth Station
JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS
Not since Adam and Eve clothed themselves with the skins God gave to them as he cast them out of the Garden has man's nakedness been anything other than a mark of his shame. Christ's nakedness reverses that curse, and all who believe will be given robes of white, washed in the blood of the Lamb.
That day they removed all his earthly clothes in order to prepare him for his robes of glory and triumph.
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