<p class="title_brown"><strong>Jesus takes up the cross</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>According to the Gospel of John (John 19, 16-17)</em></p>

<p class="quote">Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.&nbsp;Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.</p>

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

<p class="normal_text">Lord Jesus, you lovingly receive the cross, the instrument on which your total gift for your brothers will end. Also for those who make you carry it, who watch&nbsp; you like someone who has total permission to cruelly make the way you now walk as painfully and outrageous as possible. You are, after all, among the wrongdoers&hellip; the worst they inflict on you &ndash; is their conviction &ndash; is not as bad as you deserve.&nbsp;&nbsp; You embrace that cross with the same love you embraced humanity and each brother. But not without pain. How much ingratitude! How much rudeness between your gift and the response you receive.<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 all who are violent to the humble and weak of this world. I present you this prayer by the maternal hands of Mary, who in Fatima appeals to the commitment to the conversion of sinners.<br />
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Our Father ...</p>
