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Ninth Station: Weeping women




"Weep not for me, but for yourselves, and for your children."
Luke

On His way to Golgotha, in an arid, oppressive nature, with heavy trunk and sinking moon crescent, Jesus meets his mother. Like a mountain of sorrow, collapsed, she kneels in front of her Son. Another devote figure with serene gesture wards off the cross from her Master and herself.
But Christ asks her to repent her own sins, that the glad tidings of salvation be accomplished in her too.



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