Stations of the Cross Page #4

I don't.

- Don't contradict.

I didn't contradict.

I agreed with you.

That's enough.

One more impertinent answer,

and the Confirmation's cancelled.

If gospel and jazz are worth more to you

than God and salvation,

it's pointless anyway.

You can get out and walk home

or go to your so-called church choir.

Go on, get out,

and do what you like.

Go to your choir

or your friend, Rebecca,

and head out together to a club.

Do what you like!

You hear me?

Is that what you want?

Do you?

- No.

I don't want to go to a nightclub.

I don't want any of that.

Fine.

If you like choral music,

we'll look and see

if there's a good choir somewhere,

where they don't sing gospel and jazz,

or better still, we'll ask Father Weber

if he'd like a choir in our parish.

Mrs Schmidtberger's eldest daughter

studies music, she could run it.

On Thursday we go to town together,

buy your dress,

you go to confession,

and we'll ask Father Weber

if he wouldn't like a choir of his own.

Yes?

- Yes.

5:
SIMON OF CYRENE

HELPS JESUS TO CARRY THE CROSS

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

My last confession

was five weeks and three days ago.

These are my sins:

I was sometimes lazy

and tried to avoid helping at home.

I was gluttonous and ate on

although I was full.

I was vain

and gave thought to my appearance.

At times I was arrogant.

In what way were you arrogant?

I thought...

our au pair Bernadette,

she's so mature and clever,

I thought to myself

I'll be like that one day,

and everyone will admire me.

Good.

Those are all venial sins.

We must guard against all sin,

but only mortal sin

can separate us from God and damn us.

Yes.

Have you anything else to confess?

I often thought...

looking at how my mother

treats my younger brother

I sometimes felt

I could do that better.

You know the fourth commandment.

- Yes.

And it says?

- Honour thy father and thy mother,

that thy days may be long upon the land.

Precisely.

Maternal love is grand,

full of grace.

You have no insight

into your mother's heart.

No.

Have you anything else to confess?

Did you always look away

from impure ads and billboards?

Yes.

It can help to go through

the Ten Commandments in your mind.

I lied.

Whom did you lie to?

My mother.

And why did you lie?

Did you lie to gain

personal advantage?

No.

Did you lie

because you enjoyed deceiving?

No.

Or did you lie

to conceal another sin?

No, I lied...

for fear of punishment.

You can tell me the whole story.

I lied to my mother...

and...

told her a schoolmate had invited me

to sing with her in a choir.

But?

It wasn't actually a schoolmate,

but a boy from the parallel class.

Who had, though,

invited you to his choir?

Yes.

And what kind of music do they sing?

Lots of Bach chorales.

But some gospel and soul, too.

You know that this music

can be satanically influenced.

The drum rhythms

and the monotonous bass lines

tempt us to unchaste actions.

You told your mother about this?

Yes.

But in your lie

you replaced a boy with a girl?

Yes.

You told your mother about the music.

So you're trying to conceal

that it's a boy

you want to sing with in this choir.

Is it perhaps not a love of music

that makes you want to sing in a choir,

but other, deeper desires?

Yes.

Does this bring about other sins

you might want to confess?

I...

had unchaste thoughts.

I imagined...

Christian and me going to choir together,

him looking at me secretly

and finding me beautiful.

Impurity is the major sin of our time,

from which many other sins ensue.

Did you desire him physically, too?

I imagined him putting his arm around me.

Did that raise in you the desire

to unite physically with him?

I don't know.

Have you often had such fantasies

about this or other boys?

No.

Did you look at him in a manner

that may have raised

unchaste thoughts in him?

I don't know.

Think about it.

Examine your conscience.

Yes, maybe I did.

Are you otherwise on guard

to keep your soul's purity?

Yes.

- Stay on guard.

What seems beautiful to you

will, in truth, make you negligent.

You know that adultery is a mortal sin,

and to God, physical unification

outside marriage is the same thing.

Many young people these days

who grow up without the light of faith

run blindly towards their own doom

and fall into the state of sin

at 15 or 16, and never recover.

But true love

transcends the physical.

Your alarm bell rang in time.

Keep praying for the Lord's support

in withstanding

the temptations of your age.

Yes.

Do you have any more questions

or sins you'd like to confess to Jesus?

Maria?

There's one other thing,

but I'm not sure if it's a sin.

I'm listening.

I imagined how I'd become a saint:

How, out of great love of God,

I'd offer my whole life

as a sacrifice to Him,

and how He'd accepted the sacrifice.

He made me one of the chosen, saying:

"Your love exceeds that of others,

I'll take you from the Earth

to me in heaven."

And then I'd died,

and was laid in the grave.

And then my soul rose out of the grave,

higher and higher

all the way up to heaven.

God was there.

He was waiting for me.

And I could be with Him forever.

God put us here on Earth,

and those He loves most,

are needed most urgently.

Yes.

So if you say...

"God, take me from this world

of sin and shame,

take me to you in heaven,"

God will reply:

"I have plans for you on Earth.

First you must fight for me".

You can't just comfortably sneak off.

But if you believe

that your love of God

exceeds that of others,

then beware!

The sin of conceit is at hand.

God demands three things of us:

We must confess our sins,

we must repent,

and we must atone for them.

You have confessed your sins.

Repent by reciting

three sorrowful rosaries,

and atone

by putting right what you've done

as far as that's possible.

Where you have lied, tell the truth,

where you sent a boy lustful glances,

let him know

your heart belongs to God alone.

Yes.

I regret having done evil

and failing to have done good.

Have mercy on me, Lord.

Misereatur tui omnipotens Deus,

et dimissis peccatis tuis,

perducat te ad vitam ternam.

Amen.

Indulgentiam, absolutionem, et

remissionem peccatorum tuorum tribuat

tibi omnipotens et misericors Dominus.

Dominus noster Jesus Christus te

absolvat:

et ego auctoritate ipsus te absolvo

ab omni vinculo excommunicationis,

et interdicti,

in quantum possum, et tu indiges.

Deinde ego

te absolvo a peccatis tuis,

in nomine Patris,

et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

Amen.

6:
VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS

Look, this is a spoon.

Say "spoon."

Okay, put it on the table.

Great. That's it.

Knife, right,

fork, left,

and the spoon at the top.

And now the serviettes.

They're over there.

We need more, we need lots.

Put one per place.

Maria Gttler here.

- Hi, Maria.

It's Christian here.

- Hello.

Hello.

How are you?

Good.

I'm good, too.

That's good.

Have you done the problem

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