The Third Fall
I thought I would share this picture as a meditation. It is from the Stations of the Cross in Jasna Gora in Poland where the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa resides, the patroness of our ministry.
Years ago, Fr Mariusz Koch, CFR and I led a pilgrimage there for post abortive women. We were all struck by this ninth station which clearly depicts babies on the ground next to the weeping Jesus.
Here is the explanation given for this station:
..we can find weeping for our children. "He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death." However, this time we have Jesus who is weeping. Through suffering of children the Son of God suffers the most. He is helpless like a child in the mother's womb. The passion of the Christ means also beating, abuse, raping and killing of the most innocent. This passion also ends with Salvation. Behind the children's hell there is a ladder with Jacob's dream. It will first of all provide access to children, who will ascend on it, before all martyrs, "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
