Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross

Via Crucis

II

Station II of XIV

Jesus Carries His Cross

Station 2: Jesus carries His cross - El Greco painting of Christ carrying the cross
Christ Carrying the Cross by El Greco, ca. 1577-87. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Public Domain / CC0)

John 19:17

V.We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You.

R.Because by Your holy Cross You have redeemed the world.

Consider

Consider how Jesus, in making this journey with the Cross on His shoulders, thought of us, and for us offered to His Father the death He was about to undergo.

Prayer

My beloved Jesus, I embrace all the tribulations You have destined for me until death. I beg You, by the merits of the pain You suffered in carrying Your Cross, to give me the necessary help to carry mine with perfect patience and resignation. I love You, Jesus my love; I repent of having offended You. Never permit me to separate myself from You again. Grant that I may love You always; and then do with me what You will.

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

Stabat Mater

Cuius animam gementem, Contristatam et dolentem, Pertransivit gladius.

Through her heart, His sorrow sharing, All His bitter anguish bearing, Lo! the piercing sword had passed!

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