<p class="title_brown"><strong>Jesus falls for the second time</strong></p>
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<p class="normal_text"><strong>V. </strong>We adore you, O Christ and we bless you.<br />
<strong>R. </strong>Because&nbsp;by&nbsp;your Holy Cross, you&nbsp;have redeemed&nbsp;the world.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>From the book of Isaiah (Isaiah 50, 6-8)</em></p>

<p class="quote">I gave&nbsp;My back&nbsp;to those who strike&nbsp;me, And my cheeks&nbsp;to those who pluck&nbsp;out the beard;&nbsp;I did not cover&nbsp;my face&nbsp;from humiliation&nbsp;and spitting.&nbsp;For the Lord God helps me; therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. He who vindicates me is near.</p>

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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Meditation</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Lord Jesus, each fall is an apparent sign of your disgrace and the failure of the redemptive designs of the Father, who wants to rescue in you each one of His lost sons but he seems to have abandon you on the hands of the ones thirsted for blood. In that disgrace &ndash; clear for sure, to the eyes of the ones who beat and mock you &ndash; the grace is offered. Because the Father does not abandon or forgets you, he sustains and defends you, even in the silence of his apparent absence. In you, in your total donation, the fountain of blessing, grace and full life is ribbed.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Prayer</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Holy Father, United to the oblation of your Son Jesus, I pray for those who fear to abandon themselves in your hands and fully trust in you. I present you this prayer by the maternal hands of Mary who in Fatima challenges to the overcoming of fear and total trust in you.<br />
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Our Father...</p>
