Is Simon helping Jesus with the Cross Us?

[Wildkit]

As I went through the Station of the Cross, a concept or thought came to me in the fifth station where Simon helps Jesus carry the cross. My thoughts moved on how Simon really didn’t want to do it, he was indifferent, yet my Lord had already fallen one time and the soldiers didn’t want Christ to die on his way to Calvary.

Simon didn’t know what was going on, like me. Yet, to help my Lord accomplish his task, he was summoned. As I offered up my Stations of the Cross for a soul in purgatory, the point of Simon helping Christ seemed like a precursor of me. I too am all too often indifferent, but my actions for my fallen brothers and sisters is needed for the souls in purgatory. I also suspect it may help me be a more loving person.

Any similar thoughts?

 

[neum334]

Yes, we find ourselves, or get pushed into, trying circumstances much like Simon did and offer up our sufferings to unite them with Christ’s. We will never fully know the effects of this redemptive suffering until after this life.

 

[cradlecatholic5]

wildkit,

that sure made me think. Thanks!

 

[Waiting]

As I went through the Station of the Cross, a concept or thought came to me in the fifth station where Simon helps Jesus carry the cross. My thoughts moved on how Simon really didn’t want to do it, he was indifferent, yet my Lord had already fallen one time and the soldiers didn’t want Christ to die on his way to Calvary.

Simon didn’t know what was going on, like me. Yet, to help my Lord accomplish his task, he was summoned. As I offered up my Stations of the Cross for a soul in purgatory, the point of Simon helping Christ seemed like a precursor of me. I too am all too often indifferent, but my actions for my fallen brothers and sisters is needed for the souls in purgatory. I also suspect it may help me be a more loving person.

Any similar thoughts?

Simon might have been forced to help Jesus at the start, but it’s thought that a couple of his sons were bishops in Church history, so Simon must have become a believer at some point.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him

Luke 22:44 It occurred to me that the angel could strengthen and console Him, but only we humans can share in His Suffering. We can, like Simon, accept the Cross. We can, like the apostles, also share the Agony in the Garden

40 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch * with me one hour? 41* Watch * and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:40-41

 

[Wildkit]

Thank you for your responses. The OP title should have been, “Is Simon Helping Jesus with the Cross, or Are We to Help Jesus with It?” I had not heard of the tradition of Simon’s son’s becoming bishops, and again thank you.

It comes to my attention that just as Simon helps our Lord, so too can I help my Lord by my praying for others in purgatory. Why else would someone been brought into the event of our Lord carrying his cross? My Lord gives me so many clues, but I don’t have the wisdom to decipher matters for myself, but I do have the Church!

My Lord probably carried that cross for ½ mile. For assisting one reach eternity, I pray that the souls in purgatory that I pray for will pray for me and my deeds on earth. Yes, we all have crosses to bear. Just as Simon helped our Lord, maybe he helps me as well.

 

[oneGODoneCHURCH]

I heard a priest one time with a very good way of looking at Siomon help with the cross.

If we Look at it Christ was able to care the Cross on his own even thought he had stumbled and fell. Now look at this when christ stumbled and fell the next time Simon was not able to care it on his own he to cam down with the cross.

Yes simon does represent us and It is actually christ that is careing our cross for us as he cared the cross as simon walked with him. for neither simon nor we could care it.