STATIONS OF THE CROSS

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...

Christ speaks

These fourteen steps that you are now about to take, you do not walk alone. I walk with you. Though you are you, and I am I, yet we are truly one – one in Christ. And therefore my way of the Cross 2,000 years ago and your ‘Way’ now are also one. But note this difference. My life was incomplete until I crowned it by my death.  Your fourteen steps will be complete only when you have crowned them with your life.

Man Responds

My Lord Jesus Christ, you walked this Road of suffering even to your death. You did this for me. And yet I have so often failed in love of you by my sins. Now I want to love you with all my Heart and to turn away from everything that offends you. Pardon me my God. Allow mw to follow you on this journey. You went out to die for love of me. Give me the courage and the faith to die with love of you whenever the right time comes. I want to live and die always united to you. Amen.

I love you Jesus my love above all thingsI repent with my whole heart for having offended Thee
Never permit me to separate myself from thee againGrant that I may love you alwaysAnd then do with me whatever thee want.

Our Father... Hail Mary... Glory be to the Father...

FIRST STATION -JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH
   
SECOND STATION -JESUS TAKES HIS CROSS
    
THIRD STATION -JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME
    
FOURTH STATION -JESUS MEETS MARY HIS MOTHER
    
FIFTH STATION -SIMON HELPS JESUS TO CARRY HIS CROSS
    
SIXTH STATION -VERONICA WIPES THE FACE OF JESUS
    
SEVENTH STATION -JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME
    
EIGHTH STATION -JESUS CONSOLES THE WOMEN
    
NINETH STATION -JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME
    
TENTH STATION -JESUS IS STRIPPED
    
ELEVENTH STATION -JESUS IS CRUCIFIED
    
TWELFTH STATION - JESUS DIES
    
THIRTEENTH STATION- JESUS IS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS
    
FOURTEENTH STATION - JESUS IS BURIED

Christ Speaks

You remember what i told you at the beginning? When you joined me on the way of my cross. I said: "my life was incomplete until i crowned it with my death. Your fourteen steps will ot be complete until you crown them with your life." Accept each moment that comes to you with faith and trust. All that happens to you as my mark on it. Seek me not in far away places, i am very close to you: your Home, your working place, on the Streets, the Markets, at the playgrounds. These are Altars where you offer love, and i am there with you. IU want you to live your life. So now, take up your Cross and follow me!

PRAYERS AT THE HIGH ALTAR

Let us Pray

O God, who for the world's redemption was pleased to be born... rejected by the Jews, betrayed by the kiss of the traitor Judas, bound with chains, led like an innocent lamb to sacrifice, and shamefully presented before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod, accused by false Witnesses, beaten with Whips, buffeted, insulted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, smitten with a reed, blindfolded, stripped of Thy garments, fastened with nails to the cross, and lifted up on high, reputed among thieves, and made to drink gall and vinegar, and Wounded by a lance; oh, by these most sacred sufferings, which, unworthy as I am, I thus commemorate, and by Thy holy cross and death, deliver me, Lord, from the pains of hell, and deign to lead me where Thou did lead the penitent thief, who was crucified by Thy side; Thou who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, lives and reigns world without end. Amen.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father, etc., five times.

(Indulgence by Pope Pius VII.)

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...