Theme: The LORD teaches you to take up your cross.
The LORD Jesus said: “Whoever loves
father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his
cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose
it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Let us meditate on how the LORD Jesus taught
us that taking up the cross does not mean to search for pain or inflict our
bodies with sufferings. It is not to live in sadness or continual depression.
Instead, taking up the cross is to resist temptations, to sin no more and to
accept the pain that resulted from original sin, our personal sin and social
sin. We consider that the sufferings
of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for
us.
Let us pray for all those
who suffer from physical, psychological or spiritual pain, so that the LORD may
console them and heal them.
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For Spiritual Direction
This stage goes from the moment you rebel against “Conversion” stage to the moment you try to convert others.
The length of this stage depends from one person to another. Some people experience Take up your Cross for more than 2 years others for less than 1 year. All people experience the end of “Take up your Cross” with an urge to convert others.
In this stage, Christ teaches you to take up your cross.
Man learns how to take up his cross:
Man denies the Lord for the second time:
Meditations: John
Trying to convert others will lead you to the next stage: “Follow Me”.
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