Jesus, teach us how to weep and lament as you did, as prophets and people dedicated to honoring the God who made us by caring for the least among us, beginning with all the children of the earth. Teach us how to be their shield and protection, their safety and their refuge, so that they do not live in fear, in need, and without hope for a future. Jesus, may all who encounter us on our Way of the Cross, know that we care for them by our actions and our resistance to all unnecessary pain, not just words or tears. Whenever we weep, Oh Lord, let the tears wash clear our eyes and stir us to make "justice roll like a river" for the children and those who come after us in faith. Amen.

Megan McKenna in The New Stations of the Cross