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Fr. Hardon Archives - Our Lady of the Rosary - Marian Retreat - Sorrowful Mysteries - The Carrying of the Cross
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Our Lady of the Rosary - Marian Retreat
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Carrying of the Cross
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Our present meditation is on the Fourth Sorrowful
Mystery, Christ's carrying His Cross to Calvary. This mystery of the Rosary
identifies the most important single journey in the history of the human race.
It is nothing less we believe than the journey of the Son of God become Man
made from the palace of Pontius Pilate to the top of Mount Calvary where He
was crucified. All four Evangelists narrate the Carrying of the Cross. They
practically repeat one another, but also and especially St. Luke adds what the
others do not narrate. If we limit ourselves only to the Via Crucis (the
Way of the Cross) the total number of verses describing Christ carrying His
Cross amounts to fourteen of which, surprisingly, Luke has seven and St. John
only one, one verse. In order to do justice to an immense subject, I thought
we should separate the narrative of Christ carrying His Cross into two parts.
Part one - drawing exclusively on what we find in the Gospels. In part two,
what the Church over the centuries of Her Tradition has also added. Then we
will conclude, at some length, with the implications of Christ's carrying His
Cross for our lives.
Christ Carried His Own Cross
First the biblical narrative. Here is the sequence as far as we can tell. First,
as soon as the soldiers were done with their mockery of Jesus (that we've got
to keep always in mind); there was the trial, the condemnation, then the mockery
which preceded Christ's Carrying"
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