The Second Station: Jesus takes up His cross
Away from the palace now a sad procession is winding. On the faces of the multitude a fiendish joy is written, they have had their wish and now issue forth to glut their eyes on the dying struggles of the suffering innocent One. Painfully He is toiling up the long narrow street, narrower still from the crowds that line the way; each step is agony, each yard of ground He covers a fresh martyrdom of ever increasing suffering. With a refinement of cruelty His enemies have placed upon His shoulders the heavy, rough beams which will be His last painful resting place.
Cruelly the heavy beam weighs upon His mangled flesh and cuts and chafes a long, raw sore deep to the very bone.
March 17, 2026
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on Meditation on the Second Station of the Cross by Fr Willie Doyle.
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Above we read the battle between good and evil. Jesus’ sufferings and humiliation before the crowd becomes painfully real to the reader. Father Doyle perceives the intensity of the Lord’ abuse, both physical and emotional.
Father Doyle, please help us to possess a compassionate heart so that we recognize Jesus’ suffering in the suffering of our neighbor, and help them as we would want to help Jesus Himself.
I am in a hospital on oxygen. Father Willie please intercede for me. Amen.
May I unite my suffering with Jesus sufferings on the Cross, which might benefit myself or someone worse than me. In Jesus. Amen.