Ninth Station – Jesus falls for the third time
Sit and rest in silence.
Lamentations 3:1, 2, 5-8, 16, 19
I am one who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath;
he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
he has made me sit in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;
though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and made me cower in ashes;
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
is wormwood and gall!
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