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Stations and Meditations fr om the Rosary Shrine
Lawrence Lew, O.P.
£4.95 D845 | Paperback |128pp ISBN 9781784697532
Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. offers three powerful devotions from the Lenten practices of the faithful at St Dominic’s Priory church, the Rosary Shrine in London, UK. The Stations of the Cross feature photographs of the splendid stations in St Dominic’s to accompany the traditional prayers and Fr Lawrence’s meditations. The Canticle of the Passion is a 16th Century devotion based on the words of Scripture as revealed to the mystic and stigmatic St Catherine de Ricci; it is traditionally prayed by Dominican nuns on Fridays in Lent. Finally, Fr Lawrence offers a set of recollections on the Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross, which form a powerful object of contemplation for Holy Week.
In the darkness, in those times when you feel as though you are lying in your grave, remember that Christ too endured this sense of being abandoned by God, and that he lovingly chooses to enter into our darkness in order to make it “as clear as day”. For his presence is the light; he is God-with-us.
There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail (Sg 8:5)
From this point onwards, Mary accompanies her beloved son right to the very end, to the grave and even to the Resurrection, for pious traditions would hold that Mary was the first, even before St Mary Magdalene, to meet the risen Lord Nevertheless, in these stations painted for a Marian shrine, the Mother of God is eminently present, standing by Jesus until he is placed in the garden tomb. For according to the prophecy of Simeon, Christ “is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also)” (Lk 2:34-35) So, Mary shall share in Jesus’s rejection and suffering. In this regard, Mary is surely like every good mother For which loving mother has not followed and vigilantly watched over her child in his or her suffering and illness: sitting by the bedside; going to the hospital at all hours; grieving, weeping and mourning with
