7th Station

7th Station (Our Lady of Peace, Cleve., O.)
VII Jesus falls for the second time
7. Jesús cae por segunda vez

John xii ― 24 Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

24 Amen, amen dico vobis, nisi granum fruménti cadens in terram, mórtuum fúerit,

Aquí donde Cristo es carne que sufre, aquí donde Cristo es cosa, donde Cristo es persecución, donde Cristo es hombres que duermen en el campo porque no pueden dormir en su casa, donde Cristo es enfermedad que sufre por consecuencia de tantas intemperies y de tantos sufrimientos; aquí es Cristo con su cruz a cuestas, no meditado en una capilla junto al vía-crucis, sino vivido en el pueblo; es Cristo con su cruz camino del Calvario ― Monsenor Romero. 5 Marzo 1978.

Here, Christ is flesh that suffers. Here where Christ is something, he is persecution, where Christ is men who sleep out in the country because they can’t sleep in their house, where Christ is sickness that suffers because of the consequences of being so unprotected. Here is Christ with the cross upon his shoulders on the road to Calvary, not meditated in some chapel with the way of the cross or lived outside the people.