| Meditation on the Way of the Cross by Naji Mouawad | ||||||||
 We have no excuse, really. The instant we die, each and everyone one of us will stand before the Throne of Jesus Christ for our personal judgment and in that instant, Our Lord will deliver strict justice without mercy for the time of mercy is now and here on Earth while we live. When we die, this gift is gone and we must face the judgment. Here is how St. Paul puts it in the Letter to the Romans Chapter 2:5-11
Our Lord, who knows our weaknesses and our need has given us the Seven Sacraments within the Catholic Church as a means of salvation. He has opened the gate of Heaven by His death and resurrection and has then give us the Church to guide us safely to that gate. And within the Church, saints have risen who have generously offered themselves in union with the suffering of Christ on the Cross to win for us abundant graces and this devotion is one such grace that Jesus has made available for us out of His love and Compassion. The Lord did not have to do this. He did not have to stoop so low and make is so easy for us to reach heaven but such is His gracious will that he stops at nothing to make straight the way that leads us to Heaven. Here is the text of the devotion and the accompagnying talk is a meditation on the blood that Our Lord shed on the way to the Cross. This meditation was given on Ash Monday (Eastern Churches start Lent on Ash Monday whereas the Latin Church starts it on Ash Wednesday).
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