World Youth Day USA Guides Retreat Manual | Page 20

You visited the homes of tax collectors and Jesus, your final voyage was yet another march sinners, and you ate with them. You went uphill, this time to Golgotha. You stumbled home again to Nazareth, only to be rejected under the weight of the Cross. You fell down by the people there. hard, and still, you got up again. ALL: Jesus, you were once a pilgrim, too. Along the way you encountered your Mother, the women of Jerusalem, Mary Magdalene, and Reader 3: You journeyed through Samaria, a the Beloved Disciple. Simon from Cyrene, a place where few dared to go. You stopped at stranger, helped you to carry the cross to the Jacob’s well and spoke with a woman there, summit of that mountain of death. and she proclaimed you to the people. There, on Calvary, you were crucified in the You returned to Bethany in Judea, at the midday sun for hours, while the soldiers request of Mary and Martha. Your friend mocked you. You forgave them, just as you Lazarus was dead, you wept, and you brought have forgiven us. You promised heaven to the him to life again. criminal and you entrusted your Mother to the Beloved Disciple. In your final days, you entered Jerusalem, riding atop a simple mule. You were greeted with When it was finally over, you breathed shouts of joy by the young people of the city your last. It was finished. under a canopy of palm branches. ALL: Jesus, you were once a pilgrim, too. You feasted one last time with your disciples. You washed their feet and urged them to do