Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome

Also on the Vatican Web site is the Way of the Cross to be led by Pope Benedict XVI tomorrow, Good Friday, at the Colosseum in Rome. The meditations and prayers were written by Cardinal Camillo Ruini this year. The following prayer is included in his brief introduction to these traditional Stations.

Lord God, almighty Father, you know all things and you see, hidden within our hearts, our great need for you. Grant each of us the humility to acknowledge this need. Free our mind from the pretension, wrong-headed and even ridiculous, that we can master the mystery which embraces us. Free our will from the presumption, equally naïve and unfounded, that we can create our own happiness and the meaning of our lives. Enlighten and purify our inner eye, and enable us to recognize, free of all hypocrisy, the evil which lies within us. But grant us too, in the light of the cross and resurrection of your only Son, the certainty that, united to him and sustained by him, we too can overcome evil with good. Lord Jesus, help us, in this spirit, to walk behind your cross. Amen.