SIXTH STATION Psalm 27: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+27&version=NABRE VERONICA WIPES MY FACE We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world I am grateful to Veronica for wiping the blood, sweat and  dirt from my eyes. She had not been as close as close to me in life as many others, but she responded when I needed an act of kindness. Do you realize she was the last person in my earthly life to touch me in a gentle act of mercy? You never know when an act of kindness you do, will be the last one a person experiences. So you should regard every opportunity for kindness as an act that will last for eternity. Kindness begets kindness. Veronica didn’t just happen to be at the right place at the right time. She had spent a lifetime learning to be gentle. My face wasn’t the first — or the last — that she soothed. You, too, cannot expect to be gentle in a crisis unless you have practiced gentleness so soften that it comes naturally. Would you have wiped my face? How can you say you would have if you ignored  a thousand troubled faces before you saw mine? Lord Jesus, help me walk in your steps. May God Be Praised!