Station IX: Jesus Falls the Third Time

His strength totally failed him. Tradition tells us that Jesus, utterly exhausted, fell for the third time.

Keep me, O Lord, from a total collapse of the spirit. Yet, "Strength is made perfect in weakness"(2 Cor. 12). I must come to know that "My strength and my courage is the Lord"(Ps. 113). "They who hope in the lord will renew their strength; they will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint"(Isa. 40).