The Eleventh Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
St. Catherine wrote in Letter 102:
We were that soil into which the banner of the most holy cross was set; we became a sort of vessel to receive the blood of the Lamb which rand down from the cross. Why were we that soil? Because the soil was not sufficient to hold the cross erect; rather would it have rejected such in justice. Neither would a nail have been enough to hold him fastened and nailed, if the indescribable love he had for our salvation had not held him bound. So then it was the intense love for the Father’s honor and our salvation which kept him there.
Let us pray: (from St. Catherine’s The Dialogue, 134)
You see, eternal Father, that your servants stand at the door of your Truth and ask. And for what are they asking? For the blood of this door, your Truth. In his blood you have cleansed our iniquity; his blood is ours because you have made of it a bath for us. You neither can refuse it to anyone asking it of you in truth, nor wish to. Give, then, the fruit of the blood to your creatures; place on the scales the price of your beloved Son’s blood, so that the infernal demons may not abscond with your little sheep.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
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