Pray to End Human Trafficking

The Stations of the Cross, when used as a meditation, remind me of who I am before God. Archbishop Angelo Comastri really spoke to my heart through the meditations he wrote for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of Good Friday 2006. The Tenth Station was right in line with Pope Benedict  XVI's general intention for May: "That the shameful and monstrous commerce of human beings, which sadly involves millions of women and children, may be ended."

Human Trafficking is an evil that we would like to believe doesn't exist. Please join me in praying for this intention.

Meditation: Station X
"The soldiers take Jesus’ tunic from him
with the brutality of thieves;
they also try to rob him
of his modesty and his dignity.
But Jesus is the modesty, Jesus is the dignity
that belongs to man and the human body.

And the scorned body of Christ
becomes the indictment of all the scorn
ever shown to the human body,
which God created as the mirror of the soul
and the language to speak of love.

Today bodies are constantly bought and sold
on the streets of our cities,
on the streets of our televisions,
in homes that have become like streets.

When will we realize that we are killing love?
When will we realize that, without purity,
the body can neither be alive nor life-giving?"