Lourdusamy SMA
Dear friends,
I am forwarding the below message from a Catholic nun, Sister Nuala Kenny who wrote the Stations of the Cross that will help individuals reflect on the suffering of the ill and dying. Sr. Nuala is one of those Catholics fighting against the Govt. of Canada, who are debating about passing a Resolution about assisted death, which means a person who is suffering illness, can opt for their life to be snuffed out by a doctor, to save them from going through suffering and pain, whereas, we Catholics don't believe that we have the right to take our own lives.
Praying the Stations of the Cross is the part of the prayer life of many parish communities during the season of Lent. Recently, Sr. Nuala Kenny, S.C. wrote a Stations of the Cross that would help individuals reflect on the suffering of the ill and dying. The document, The Way of the Cross Today: Reflections on Suffering in Sickness and Dying. The introduction reads…
“For it is not as if we had a high priest who was incapable of feeling our weakness with us; but we have one who has been tempted in every way that we are, though he is without sin.” (Hebrews 4: 15)
The experiences of serious, life-threatening and terminal illness and of dying are times of profound challenges for patients, their loved ones and their care-givers. Persons of faith experience the same physical and psychological distress as others but faith can be a deep source of comfort and strength. Christian spirituality is rooted in our relationship to a God who so loved us that he sent his only Son to suffer and die for us. In sacrificing himself, Jesus gave a new meaning to sickness, dying and death. We indeed have a “high priest who knows our weakness.” The passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a grace of divine mercy.
In today’s death-denying, death-defying world of modern technological and cure oriented medicine, where suffering is to be avoided at all cost, we need to retrieve the solace and strength of The Way of the Cross.
It might be useful for personal or community mediation of the station of the Cross.
Have a good reception
Lourdu sma
Bangalore
arokia raj
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