The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to death

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• The Person of
• Jesus Christ
• and the
• Trinity

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• That Love Thy Neighbour Thing .. I meant it.
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• Tell the kids I love them!
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• 1. Practical
• 2. The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Saints
• 3. Prayer

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• The
• Blessed
• Virgin
• Mary

• The Annunciation by Fra Angelico

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• But when the time had fully come, God sent forth
  his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to
  redeem those who were under the law, so that we
  might receive adoption as sons. (St. Pauls
  letter to the Galatians 44-5)

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• Luke 1 26 -38 The Annunciation
• 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent
  by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27
  to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was
  Joseph, of the house of David. The virgins name
  was Mary. 28And he came to her and said,
  Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.
  29But she was much perplexed by his words and
  pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
  30The angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary,
  for you have found favour with God. 31And now,
  you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
  and you will name him Jesus. 32He will be great,
  and will be called the Son of the Most High, and
  the Lord God will give to him the throne of his
  ancestor David. 33He will reign over the house of
  Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be
  no end. 34Mary said to the angel, How can this
  be, since I am a virgin? 35The angel said to
  her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
  power of the Most High will overshadow you
  therefore the child to be born will be holy he
  will be called Son of God. 36And now, your
  relative Elizabeth in her old age has also
  conceived a son and this is the sixth month for
  her who was said to be barren. 37For nothing will
  be impossible with God. 38Then Mary said, Here
  am I, the servant of the Lord let it be with me
  according to your word. Then the angel departed
  from her.

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• Luke 139-56 The Visitation of the Blessed
  Virgin Mary to her cousin, Elizabeth.
• 39 In those days Mary set out and went with
  haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40
  where she entered the house of Zechariah and
  greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Marys
  greeting, the child leapt in her womb. And
  Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42 and
  exclaimed with a loud cry, Blessed are you among
  women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43
  And why has this happened to me, that the mother
  of my Lord comes to me? 44For as soon as I heard
  the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb
  leapt for joy. 45And blessed is she who believed
  that there would be a fulfillment of what was
  spoken to her by the Lord. 46 And Mary said,My
  soul magnifies the Lord, 47   and my spirit
  rejoices in God my Saviour, 48 for he has looked
  with favour on the lowliness of his
  servant.   Surely, from now on all generations
  will call me blessed 49 for the Mighty One has
  done great things for me,   and holy is his
  name. 50 His mercy is for those who fear
  him   from generation to generation. 51 He has
  shown strength with his arm   he has scattered
  the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. 52 He
  has brought down the powerful from their
  thrones,   and lifted up the lowly 53 he has
  filled the hungry with good things,   and sent
  the rich away empty. 54 He has helped his
  servant Israel,   in remembrance of his mercy,
  55 according to the promise he made to our
  ancestors,   to Abraham and to his descendants
  for ever.
• 56 And Mary remained with her for about three
  months and then returned to her home.

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• Wedding at Cana John 21-11

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• There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The
  mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his
  disciples had also been invited. When they ran
  out of wine, since the wine provided for the
  wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus
  said to him, They have no wine.
• Jesus said, Woman, why turn to me? My hour has
  not come yet. His mother said to the servants,
  Do whatever he tells you.
• There were six stone water jars standing there,
  meant for the ablutions that are customary among
  the Jews each could hold twenty or thirty
  gallons. Jesus said to the servants, Fill the
  jars with water, and they filled them to the
  brim.

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Draw some out now, he told them, and take it
to the steward. They did this the steward
tasted the water, and it had turned into wine.
Having no idea where it came from only the
servants who had drawn the water knew the
steward called the bridegroom and said, People
generally serve the best wine first, and keep the
cheaper sort till the guests have had plenty to
drink but you have kept the best wine till now.
This was the first of the signs given by Jesus
it was given at Cana in Galilee. He let his
glory be seen, and his disciples believed in him.
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• John 19 25b-27
• Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were
  his mother, and his mothers sister, Mary the
  wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus
  saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved
  standing beside her, he said to his mother,
  Woman, here is your son. 27Then he said to the
  disciple, Here is your mother. And from that
  hour the disciple took her into his own home.

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• Her Immaculate Conception
• The Virgin Birth How can this be for I have
  not know man. Luke Fulfillment of the prophet
  Isaiah 714 a virgin shall conceive and bear a
  son. -mentioned in the Apostles Creed of the
  1st C.
• Mother of God Mary supplied the Son of God, the
  second person of the Blessed Trintity, become man
  with his human nature. Jesus is one person, the
  Son of God with two natures, divine and human. A
  mother is the mother of a person and therefore
  she is the Mother of God.
• The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin at the
  moment of her death
• Mother of the Church John, this is your
  mother. Woman, this is your son.
• ?at?e?a Latria Worship due to God alone
• d????a Dulia Veneration/honour given to the
  saints.
• ?p??d????a hyperdulia hyper veneration/
  honour given to the Blessed Virgin Mary

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• The Reasons for Hyper Veneration of the Blessed
  Virgin Mary
• Model of Obedience to God Her yes to Gods
  plan. Be it done unto me according to Thy
  word.
• Model of prayer
• The most perfect Christian Do whatever he
  tells you.

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• What is a Saint?.
• In official Church procedures there are three
  steps to sainthood one becomes Venerable,
  Blessed and then a Saint. Venerable is the title
  given to a deceased person recognized as having
  lived heroic virtues. (A life of prayer, a life
  of service and moral virtue) To be recognized as
  a blessed, and therefore beatified, in addition
  to personal attributes of charity and heroic
  virtue, one miracle, acquired through the
  individual's intercession, is required.
  Canonization requires two. Martyrdom does not
  usually require a miracle.

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• Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
• (1910-1997)
• Lived a life of heroic virtue
• One miracle has already been accepted

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• In this trying time that our country is going
  through we Catholics and especially we students,
  have a serious duty to fulfill our
  self-formation. ...We, who by the grace of God
  are Catholics... must steel ourselves for the
  battle we shall certainly have to fight to
  fulfill our program and give our country, in the
  not too distant future, happier days and a
  morally healthy society, but to achieve this we
  need constant prayer to obtain from God that
  grace without which all our prayers are useless
  organization and discipline to be ready for
  action at the right time and finally, the
  sacrifice of our passion and of ourselves,
  because without that we cannot achieve our aim.
  (1922)

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• St.
• Gianna Beretta Molla
• (1922
• 1962)

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Prayer
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• The best way to teach anyone to pray is to
  model it.
• Begin and end each class with a prayer.
• If they see it is of value to you, then they
  will value it. (It is also one of
  the best techniques to use to bring a class to
  order that I have ever used.)
• Remember Pope Paul VI Modern man no longer
  listens to teachers. He only listens to
  witnesses. And he only listens to teachers when
  they are witnesses.

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• WHAT
• IS PRAYER?
• For me, prayer is a surge of the heartit is a
  simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of
  recognition and of love, embracing both trial
  and joy.
• St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1875-1899)

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• "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart
  to God or the requesting of good things from
  God."
• St. John Damascene
• (676 AD to 749 AD)

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• What is prayer?
• Matthew 77-12
• 7 "Ask and it will be given to you seek and you
  will find knock and the door will be opened to
  you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives and the
  one who seeks, finds and to the one who knocks,
  the door will be opened. 9 Which one of you
  would hand his son a stone when he asks for a
  loaf of bread, 10 or a snake when he asks for a
  fish? 11 If you then, who are wicked, know how to
  give good gifts to your children, how much more
  will your heavenly Father give good things to
  those who ask him. 12 "Do to others whatever you
  would have them do to you. This is the law and
  the prophets.

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• Mother Teresas Business Card
• The Fruit of Silence is Prayer
• The Fruit of Prayer is Faith
• The Fruit of Faith is
• Love
• The Fruit of Love is Service
• The Fruit of Service is Peace

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• Ritual Sustains Prayer by Father Ron Rolheiser
• In a homily at a wedding Dietrich
  Bonhoeffer once gave this advice to a young
  couple Today you ae young and very much in
  love and you think that your love can sustain
  your marriage. It cant. Let your marriage
  sustain your love.
• Love and prayer work the same The
  neophytes mistake is to think that they can be
  sustained simply through good feelings and good
  intention, without the help of ritual-container
  and a sustaining rhythm.
• Thats naïve, however sincere. Love and
  prayer can only be sustained through ritual,
  routine and rhythm. Why?
• What eventually makes us stop praying John
  of the Cross says is simple boredom, tiredness,
  lack of energy. Its hard, very hard,
  existentially impossible, to crank up the energy,
  day and day out, to pray with real affectivity,
  real feeling and real heart. We simply cannot
  sustain that kind of energy and enthusiasm.
  Were human beings, limited in our energies. We
  need something else to help us. What?
• Ritual- a rhythm, a routine. Monks have
  secrets worth knowing and anyone who has ever
  been to a monastery knows that monks (who pray
  often and a lot) sustain themselves in prayer not
  through feeling, variety or creativity, but
  through ritual, rhythm and routine. Monastic
  prayer is simple, often rote, has a clear
  durational expectancy and is structured so as to
  allow each monk the freedom to invest himself or
  hold back, in terms of energy and heart,
  depending upon his disposition on a given day.
  That is wise anthropology.

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• Ritual Sustains Prayer by Father Ron Rolheiser
• In a homily at a wedding Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  once gave this advice to a young couple Today
  you are young and very much in love and you think
  that your love can sustain your marriage. It
  cant. Let your marriage sustain your love.
• Love and prayer work the same The
  neophytes mistake is to think that they can be
  sustained simply through good feelings and good
  intention, without the help of ritual-container
  and a sustaining rhythm.
• Thats naïve, however sincere. Love and
  prayer can only be sustained through ritual,
  routine and rhythm. Why?
• What eventually makes us stop praying John
  of the Cross says is simple boredom, tiredness,
  lack of energy. Its hard, very hard,
  existentially impossible, to crank up the energy,
  day in and day out, to pray with real
  affectivity, real feeling and real heart. We
  simply cannot sustain that kind of energy and
  enthusiasm. Were human beings, limited in our
  energies. We need something else to help us.
  What?

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• Prayer is like eating. There needs to be a
  good rhythm between big banquets (high
  celebration, lots of time, proper formality) and
  the everyday family supper (simple, no-frills,
  short, predictable). A family that ries to eat
  every meal as if it were a baquet soon finds that
  most of its members are looking for an excuse to
  be absent.
• With good reason. Everyone needs to eat
  every day, but nobody has energy for a banquet
  every day. The same holds true for prayer. One
  wonders whether the huge drop-off of people who
  used to attend church services daily isnt
  connected to this. People attended daily
  services more when those services were short,
  routine, predictable and gave them the freedom to
  be as present or absent (in terms of emotional
  investment) as their energy and heart allowed on
  that given day.
• Today, unfortunately, we are misled by a
  number of misconceptions about prayer and
  liturgy. Too commonly, we accept the following
  set of axioms as wise creativity and variety
  are always good. Every prayer-celebration should
  be one of high energy. Longer is better than
  shorter. Either you should pray with feeling or
  you shouldnt pray at al. ritual is meaningless
  unless we are emotionally invested in it.
• Each of these axioms is overly romantic,
  ill thought out, anthropologically naïve and not
  helpful in sustaining a life of prayer.
• Prayer is a relationship, a one-term one,
  and lives by those rules. Relating to anyone
  long term has its ups and downs. Nobody can be
  interesting all the time, sustain high energy all
  the time or fully invest himself or herself all
  the time. Rally life doesnt work that way.
  Neither does prayer. What sustains a
  relationship long-term is ritual, routine, a
  regular rhythm that incarnates the commitment.

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• Ritual- a rhythm, a routine. Monks have secrets
  worth knowing and anyone who has ever been to a
  monastery knows that monks (who pray often and a
  lot) sustain themselves in prayer not through
  feeling, variety or creativity, but through
  ritual, rhythm and routine. Monastic prayer is
  simple, often rote, has a clear durational
  expectancy and is structured so as to allow each
  monk the freedom to invest himself or hold back,
  in terms of energy and heart, depending upon his
  disposition on a given day. That is wise
  anthropology.
• Prayer is like eating. There needs to be a
  good rhythm between big banquets (high
  celebration, lots of time, proper formality) and
  the everyday family supper (simple, no-frills,
  short, predictable). A family that tries to eat
  every meal as if it were a banquet soon finds
  that most of its members are looking for an
  excuse to be absent.
• With good reason. Everyone needs to eat
  every day, but nobody has energy for a banquet
  every day. The same holds true for prayer. One
  wonders whether the huge drop-off of people who
  used to attend church services daily isnt
  connected to this.

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• Imagine you have an aged mother in a nursing
  ghome and youve committed yourself to visiting
  her twice a week. How do you sustain yourself
  in this. Not by feeling energy or emotion, but
  by commitment, routine and ritual. You go to
  visit her at a given time not because you feel
  like it but because its time. You go to visit
  her in spite of the fact that you sometimes cant
  give her the best of your heart and that often
  you are tired, distracted restless, over-burdened
  and are occasionally sneaking a glance at your
  watch and wondering how soon you can make a
  graceful exit.
• Moreover, your conversation with her will
  not always be deep or about meaningful things.
  Occasionally there will be emotional satisfaction
  and the sense that something important was
  shared, but many times, perhaps most times, there
  will only be the sense that it was good that you
  were there and that nay important life-giving
  connection has been nurtured and sustained,
  despite what seemingly occurred at the surface.
  Youve been with your mother and thats more
  important than whatever feelings or conversation
  might have taken place. Prayer works the same
  way. Thats why the saints and great spiritual
  writers have always said there is only one,
  non-negotiable rule of prayer Show up! Show up
  regularly! The ups and downs of our minds and
  hearts are of secondary importance.

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• People attended daily services more when those
  services were short, routine, predictable and
  gave them the freedom to be as present or absent
  (in terms of emotional investment) as their
  energy and heart allowed on that given day.
• Today, unfortunately, we are misled by a
  number of misconceptions about prayer and
  liturgy. Too commonly, we accept the following
  set of axioms as wise creativity and variety
  are always good. Every prayer-celebration should
  be one of high energy. Longer is better than
  shorter. Either you should pray with feeling or
  you shouldnt pray at al. Ritual is meaningless
  unless we are emotionally invested in it.
• Each of these axioms is overly romantic,
  ill thought out, anthropologically naïve and not
  helpful in sustaining a life of prayer.
• Prayer is a relationship, a one on one, and
  lives by those rules. Relating to anyone long
  term has its ups and downs. Nobody can be
  interesting all the time, sustain high energy all
  the time or fully invest himself or herself all
  the time. Really life doesnt work that way.
  Neither does prayer. What sustains a
  relationship long-term is ritual, routine, a
  regular rhythm that incarnates the commitment.

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• Imagine you have an aged mother in a nursing
  home and youve committed yourself to visiting
  her twice a week. How do you sustain yourself
  in this. Not by feeling energy or emotion, but
  by commitment, routine and ritual. You go to
  visit her at a given time not because you feel
  like it but because its time. You go to visit
  her in spite of the fact that you sometimes cant
  give her the best of your heart and that often
  you are tired, distracted restless, over-burdened
  and are occasionally sneaking a glance at your
  watch and wondering how soon you can make a
  graceful exit.
• Moreover, your conversation with her will
  not always be deep or about meaningful things.
  Occasionally there will be emotional satisfaction
  and the sense that something important was
  shared, but many times, perhaps most times, there
  will only be the sense that it was good that you
  were there and that any important life-giving
  connection has been nurtured and sustained,
  despite what seemingly occurred at the surface.
  Youve been with your mother and thats more
  important than whatever feelings or conversation
  might have taken place. Prayer works the same
  way. Thats why the saints and great spiritual
  writers have always said there is only one,
  non-negotiable rule of prayer Show up! Show up
  regularly! The ups and downs of our minds and
  hearts are of secondary importance.

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• The Serenity Prayer
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot change,
• Courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to
  know the difference.
• Living one day at a time
• Enjoying one moment at a time
• Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
• Taking as he did,
• This sinful world as it is,
• Not as I would have it.
• Trusting that he will make all things right
• If I surrender to his will.
• That I may be reasonably happy in this life
• And supremely happy
• With him forever in the next. Amen.

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Nicene Creed We believe in one God, the Father,
the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all
that is seen and unseen. We believe in one
Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father, God from God,
Light from Light, true God from true God,
begotten, not made, one in being with the
Father. Through him all things were made. For
us men and for our salvation he came down from
heaven, by the power of the Holy Spirit he was
born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For
our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate
he suffered, died, and was buried. On the
third day he rose again in fulfillment of the
Scriptures he ascended into heaven and is
seated at the right hand of the Father. He will
come again in glory to judge the living and the
dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We
believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver
of life, who proceeds from the Father and the
Son. With the Father and the Son he is
worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through
the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic
and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism
for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the
resurrection of the dead, and the life of the
world. Amen..