The Stations of the Cross and a stillbirth

At Carrots for Michaelmas, Haley Stewart meditated on the Stations of the Cross – particularly one Our Lord being taken down from the Cross. As St Alphonsus Liguori wrote: “His Mother … received Him with unutterable tenderness and pressed Him close to her bosom.”

Stewart was reminded of a friend who suffered a stillbirth, and who sat with her baby daughter’s tiny casket before the funeral. “Being in the room it was impossible not to feel the immeasurable love she had for her child filling the air. You could breathe it in as you walked into that holy space where the curtain between earth and heaven was drawn back just an inch.”