"Following the Last Supper, Jesus hands over his body to be a sacrifice for all. At each celebration of the Eucharist, we are brought back to Calvary. Enter into this mystery by praying the Eucharistic Stations of the Cross." 

- By Father Patrick Briscoe, OP for Our Sunday Visitor (March 3-9, 2024)

Do you want to know and love God? The medieval Dominican mystic St. Catherine of Siena says that there is no better means than prayer. “For by such prayer the soul is united with God, following in the footsteps of Christ crucified, and through desire and affection and the union of love he makes of her another himself,” she explains.

We retrace Our Lord’s final steps in praying the Stations of the Cross. But this prayer is more than a casual recollection. Through the stations, we can know a tremendous and intimate union with him. Dominican Father A.G. Sertillanges says, “We can make our own the sphere of vision and the emotions that were his, seeing with his eyes and feeling with his heart, remembering, judging, and foreseeing with him, so that, still in this same sense of imagining that we have changed places with him, it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us.”

The Stations of the Cross help us to better understand the Eucharistic mystery. In praying them, may we come to love Jesus all the more, and run to him, who is truly present in the sacrament of his body and blood.

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