“Beaten and bruised and struggling under the weight of His cross, Jesus turned to them and said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, weep instead for yourselves and your children’.”

“How hard is must have been to look on the flogged and bleeding figure of Jesus, as he struggled under the weight of his cross and not weep. Yet, our Lord was not moved by self-pity, but pity for the suffering destined for his people, pity for the suffering man would inflict upon man.”