{"id":3425,"date":"2017-02-27T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site2020.marieauxiliatrice.eu\/english\/prayer-space\/walking-the-way-of-the-cross-with-marie-therese-de-soubiran\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:33:21","slug":"walking-the-way-of-the-cross-with-marie-therese-de-soubiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marieauxiliatrice.catholique.fr\/en\/prayer-space\/walking-the-way-of-the-cross-with-marie-therese-de-soubiran\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the way of the cross with Marie Therese de Soubiran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let Marie-Therese de Souhiran be our guide as we follow Jesus along the Way of the Cross<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

JESUS IN AGONY IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE<\/h2>\n

“It will be very difficult to find a place\u2026 If then there is no such possibility open to me, there
\nremains a third way. This one would be very painful
\nfor me, that of going I know not where\u2026 our Lord will not abandon me, and I shall always have
\nmy heart to love him without measure and to lose
\nmyself more and more in him.”<\/p>\n

[\/Texts:<\/strong>“Spiritual Writings”<\/strong> of Marie-Therese de Soubiran<\/strong>, p.62-63 (2nd March 1874).\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH<\/h2>\n

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“What more could I ask for, then, than this extreme
\nbitterness with which you nourish me, this taste of death
\nwith which you fill my soul and which is constantly at
\nwork within me, putting an end to my personal life by
\nrevealing the true reality of all things?”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.126 (25th February 1880)\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS MADE TO CARRY HIS CROSS<\/h2>\n

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“Like a little hand in a big one. The big one does
\neverything for the little one. It is its strength and its
\nmovement. The little one is carried, enclosed by the
\nbig one; they form but one hand so to speak; so are
\nmy heart, my mind, my soul in our Lord Jesus Christ.”<\/p>\n

[\/ idem. p.142 (14th September 1880)\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME<\/h2>\n

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“Abandoned by ail those I loved and in whom I had
\nput all my confidence, I was cast out without shelter,
\naccused of being responsible for the whole catastrophe,
\nblamed by everyone for all the ills about to fall on
\nM.A.; I was obliged to keep silence and to allow the
\nwhole weight to rest upon myself alone.”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.22 (“Love and Mercy” 8)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS MEETS HIS SORROWFUL MOTHER<\/h2>\n

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“I made a vow that: 1) we should all bear the name of Mary; 2) there
\nshould always be a statue of Our Lady in the chapel
\nof every house; and 3) Our Lady should be recognized
\nas the Superior of this little Society.
\nFrom that time on everything began to go smoothly
\nboth within and without.” <\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.14 (“Love and Mercy” 5)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

SIMON OF CYRENE HELPS JESUS CARRY HIS CROSS<\/h2>\n

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“The burden of souls is the greatest pain of all and
\ncan be understood only by one who has experienced it;
\nbeside it everything else in life is of little account.”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.22 (“Love and Mercy” 8)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME<\/h2>\n

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“I adored profoundly and loved this will which was
\ncrushing me and I realized that there were great
\ntreasures hidden there for me. During all this time of
\nsuffering, prayer was a comfort to me; I was so hungry,
\nso cold, so frightened … I cried out for mercy
\nand pity . . . And my soul emerged consoled and
\nstrengthened and in a deep though bitter peace.”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.60 (2nd March 1874)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS<\/h2>\n

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” I am then released from all responsibility and, as it were, set free in every respect. I am alone. That is to say everything has been removed from me. God alone knows what he will give back or take from me forever. I am happy and at peace in his adorable hands”<\/p>\n

[\/ idem. p.61 (2nd March 1874)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS NAILED TO THE CROSS<\/h2>\n

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“‘My joy lies in being close to God. To adhere to
\nthe Lord does not only mean to think about God.
\nThought is vain, fragile, passing like time to which it
\nbelongs.
\nIt is then much more than thinking . . . It is being
\nattentive to God, with the constant attention of faith, of
\nreverence, of confidence and of love. Greatly superior to
\nanything passing, it outweighs everything.
\n”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.101-102 (March 1879)\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS RAISED UPON THE CROSS AND DIES<\/h2>\n

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“Here I am before you, O my God….Before your majesty, your love, your almighty power
\nBefore you in whom everything exists and apart from
\nwhom is nothing, nothing but emptiness and sin.
\nBefore you, alone and poor, destitute in myself and
\nby myself, in every creature and by every creature.
\nBefore you, rich in poverty and misery and nameless
\ncowardice. Before you, but by your grace alone, here I am
\nwholly, with all my spirit, ail my heart, all my will”<\/p>\n

[\/idem p.106 ( 18th October 1879)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND PLACED IN THE ARMS OF HIS MOTHER<\/h2>\n

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“Only death makes it possible for us to live the life
\nof God in a stable and permanent way and with all the
\nplenitude that God desires for the work of his hands.
\n\u2026 it alone is the gateway to true life, the life of God living in us, of us living in him and by him.”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.106 (4th December 1880)
\n\/]<\/p>\n

JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB<\/h2>\n

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“Ah, Lord, are we then to believe in so much love?
\nOur joy is the joy of your heart. Your love is such that
\nour good becomes your good, you take pleasure in
\nusing your power to please us, to do what is good for
\nus, to give to us who are the work of your hands, the
\nhundredfold even in this life.
\n\u2026
\nBut, my God, you desire even more than that. You
\nwant your life and mine to become one, or rather that
\nmy life should merge into yours and be lost in it; that
\nin divine familiarity and intimacy, at the core of my
\nbeing where you dwell, you might be everything for
\nme\u2026.<\/p>\n

Lord, may I eternally exalt, bless and praise your
\ngreatness, your love, your power and lastly your boundless
\nmercy towards the work of your hands.”<\/p>\n

[\/idem. p.185, p187 (“Prayer of Thanksgiving, Confidence and Love” 1881).
\n\/]<\/p>\n

[\/\/]<\/p>\n

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