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title: Rezando con la Via Crucis/Praying through the Stations of the Cross
description: Tomando control de mis objetivos para la cuaresma/Taking control of my objectives for Lent
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# Rezando con la Via Crucis/Praying through the Stations of the Cross

Mar 5, 2015 4:30:39 PM  |  by [Maria Morera Johnson](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/maria-morera-johnson)

[![stations](https://www.catholicmom.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-8_45_21-AM1-282x244.png?width=282&height=244&name=Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-8_45_21-AM1-282x244.png)](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-8_45_21-AM1.png)Estamos entrando en la tercera semana de la Cuaresma.

Tenía muchas ideas acerca de lo que debía hacer en esta temporada. Para mí, es como una oportunidad para un reinicio espiritual -- la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo. Es parecido a las resoluciones de Año Nuevo.

Igual que abandono esas resoluciones, mis ideas cuaresmales tienden a desaparecer en la segunda semana, y no logro alcanzar los nobles objetivos que me propuse.

Este año me propuse hacer algo simple. *Simple* no necesariamente significa *fácil*.

Una de las cosas que he propuesto es dedicarme a la oración. Debido a mi horario de trabajo, no puedo comprometerme a la misa diaria. He añadido ciertas oraciones y rutinas en los últimos años, por lo tanto, mi idea es para mejorar lo que ya estoy haciendo.

No hay duda de que mi vida beneficiaría enormemente de un enfoque más sólido en la oración. Con esto en mente, me comprometí a la Vía Crucis los viernes. En lugar de participar en grupo, voy sola por la tarde.

Esa hora de meditación me viene bien. Decir que *disfruto* esta hora de oración probablemente no es la palabra correcta, pero sin duda ha sido algo digno de hacer, y probablemente, una práctica que podría incorporar todo el año, si no semanal, por lo menos mensual.

Al caminar con Jesús en su Pasión, he participado en sus sufrimientos. He meditado sobre la humildad, pensando menos en lo que tengo, y más en lo que Cristo me ha dado en la Salvación.

En este camino me doy cuenta de mis tropiezos y caídas, pero también reconozco las gracias. Experimento con Cristo la humillación, la debilidad, y el dolor -- y también la ternura y el amor.

***

Lent is well under way.

I usually have many ideas about what I need to do for myself at the beginning. For me, it’s like an opportunity for a spiritual reboot, a chance to begin again. It’s not unlike making New Year’s resolutions.

And like those resolutions, my Lenten ideas tend to peter out sometime into the second week, and I fail to accomplish the lofty goals I set for myself.

I thought I’d keep it simple this year. Stick with the *simple*, which doesn’t necessarily mean *easy*.

One of the things I’ve set out to do is work on my prayer life. Because of the nature of my schedule, I can’t make a commitment to daily Mass. I’ve added certain prayers and routines over the years, so the challenge is to find a place to add, to enhance what I’m already doing.

There’s no question that my prayer life would benefit greatly from a more robust approach to prayer. With that in mind, I’ve made a commitment to the Stations of the Cross on Fridays, and rather than attending a group worship service in the evening, I’ve started going alone in the late afternoon.

I’m stretching myself with an hour of prayerful meditation on those Friday afternoons. I think *enjoy* is probably not the right word for this exercise, but it has definitely been something worth doing, and very likely, a practice that I could incorporate year round, if not weekly, then perhaps monthly.

In walking along with Jesus in His Passion, I’ve been able to participate in His suffering, to meditate on humility, and focus less on what I have and meditate more on what Christ has given me in Salvation.

It is a journey of suffering that accounts for my stumbles and falls, and the graces, too, as I experience with Christ, humiliation, weakness, pain, and also tenderness and love.

*Copyright 2015, Maria Morera Johnson*

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Maria Morera Johnson, author of *My Badass Book of Saints*, *Super Girls and Halo*, and *Our Lady of Charity: How a Cuban Devotion to Mary Helped Me Grow in Faith and Love* writes about all the things that she loves. A cradle Catholic, she struggles with living in the world but not being of it, and blogs about those successes and failures, too.

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