O Jesus Crucified!
Help us to carry our cross as You carried Yours!
Way of the Cross
of Mercy
Preparatory Prayer.
O
Jesus!
We
are
going
to
walk
with
You
on
the
road
to
Calvary
which
was
so
painful
for
You.
Make
us
understand
the
greatness
of
Your
sufferings,
touch
our
hearts
with
a
tender
compassion
at
the
sight
of
Your
torments,
so
that
may
increase
in
us
the
regret
of
our
faults
and
the
love
we
want
to
have
for
You.
Please
apply
to
us
all
the
infinite
merits
of
Your
Passion,
and
in
memory
of
Your
sufferings,
have
mercy
on
the
souls
in
Purgatory,
especially
on
those
who are most abandoned.
O
divine
Mary,
who
first
taught
us
to
walk
the
Way
of
the
Cross,
obtain
for
us
the
grace
to
follow
Jesus
with
the
sentiments
with
which
Your
Heart
was
filled
while
accompanying
Him
on
the
road
to
Calvary.
May
we
weep
with
You,
and
love
Your
divine
Son
as
You
do.
We
ask
this
in
the
name
of
His
adorable
Heart.
Amen.
O
Jesus,
innocent
victim
condemned
to
death
by
an
unjust
sentence,
so
often
endorsed
and
renewed
by
my
guilty
offenses,
preserve
me
always
from
the
sentence
of
an
eternal
death
which
I
have
so
often
deserved.
Ah!
without
Your
support,
I
would
already
be
living
in
the
night
of
hell.
How
much
I
am
indebted
to
Your
mercy
for not having fallen into the abyss!… Amen.
I. Jesus is condemned to death
II. Jesus takes up His Cross
O
Jesus,
deposited
from
the
cross
in
the
tomb,
I
also
want,
as
one
who
has
died
to
everything,
to
be
inseparable
from
You
in
the
solitude
and
silence
of
a
life
hidden
in
God
with
You.
O
glorious
sepulchre,
where
the
precious
pledge
of
my
salvation
rests,
may
I
also
have
a
new
heart
adorned
with
virtues,
to
receive
there
the
adorable
body
of
Jesus!
O
my
Saviour,
prepare
in
me
a
dwelling
worthy
of
You;
make
me
live
no
longer
for
myself,
but
for
You
alone,
who
died
for
me;
or
rather,
live
alone
in
me
from
now
on,
so
that
after
having
received
here
below,
in
Your
sacraments,
the
first
fruits
of
the
merits
of
Your
passion
and
Your
death,
I
may
one
day receive them in the fullness of Heaven. Amen.
O
Jesus,
so
deeply
saddened!
O
Mother,
so
painfully
afflicted!
Ah,
if
in
the
past,
my
illusions
or
my
disorders
were
the
cause
of
Your
anguish
and
sorrows,
it
will
no
longer
be
so,
with
the
help
of
divine
grace.
No,
from
now
on
I
will
no
longer
be
a
source
of
bitterness
and
affliction
for
such
a
tender
Son
and
Mother;
O
Jesus,
O
Mary,
I
will
love
You
faithfully
throughout
my
life
and
until my death. Amen.
III. Jesus falls for the first time
O
Jesus,
so
deeply
saddened!
O
Mother,
so
painfully
afflicted!
Ah,
if
in
the
past,
my
illusions
or
my
disorders
were
the
cause
of
Your
anguish
and
sorrows,
it
will
no
longer
be
so,
with
the
help
of
divine
grace.
No,
from
now
on
I
will
no
longer
be
a
source
of
bitterness
and
affliction
for
such
a
tender
Son
and
Mother;
O
Jesus,
O
Mary,
I
will
love
You
faithfully
throughout
my
life
and
until my death. Amen.
IV. Jesus encounters His Most Holy Mother
Happy
the
Cyrenian
who
helps
You,
O
Jesus,
to
carry
Your
cross!
Happier
would
I
be
if,
moved
by
Your
example
and
moved
by
Your
weariness,
I
would
help
You
to
carry
Your
cross,
embracing
with
submission,
with
patience
and
with
joy
all
the
crosses
that
You
will
be
pleased
to
send
me
in
the
course
of
my
life!
O
divine
Model, grant me this grace. Amen.
V. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry His Cross
O
Jesus,
the
most
beautiful
of
the
children
of
men
and
the
most
horribly
disfigured
for
our
sins,
I
approach
You
with
the
courageous
Veronica,
to
contemplate
Your
forehead
covered
with
blood
and
sweat,
and
I
am
moved
with
her
at
the
sight
of
such
a
spectacle.
Ah,
You
have
deigned
to
impress
the
august
features
of
Your
face
on
the
veil
she
used
to
wipe
it!
I
beseech
You,
Lord,
deign
to
imprint
in
my
soul
the
permanent
memory
of
the
outrages
You
have
received
and
the
atrocious
pains
You have endured for sinners. Amen.
VI. Veronica wipes the Face of Jesus
O
Jesus,
here
You
are
a
second
time
succumbing
under
the
heavy
burden
of
the
cross,
in
the
midst
of
the
imprecations
and
blasphemies
of
an
impious
and
sacrilegious
soldiery;
and
my
relapses
into
sin
have
joined
this
torrent
of
insults!
Ah,
Lord,
help
my
weakness,
give
me
the
courage
to
put
into
practice
the
most
effective
means
to
avoid
falling
back
into
sin.
Amen.
VII. Jesus falls for the second time
O
Jesus,
You
forgot
for
a
moment
Your
distress,
in
order
to
attend
only
to
the
tears
of
the
pious
women
of
Jerusalem
who
were
following
You
in
order
to
instruct
them
of
the
cause
of
Your
sorrows
and
to
console
their
grief
with
the
sweet
unction
of
Your
words.
Teach
me
also
to
weep
over
my
offenses,
to
anticipate
Your
justice,
to
entrust
myself
only
to
Your
infinite
mercy
and to correspond to all Your holy inspirations. Amen.
VIII. Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
O
Jesus,
divine
Lamb,
here
You
have
arrived
at
the
altar
of
Your
sacrifice!
Is
it
possible
that
You
let
Yourself
be
stripped
of
Your
robe,
as
if
to
reopen
all
Your
wounds,
still
bleeding?
Oh,
may
this
violence
which
tears
off
Your
clothes
without
pity,
with
the
shreds
of
bruised
flesh
attached
to
them,
touch
me
and
penetrate
me
with
a
holy
confusion,
at
the
thought
that
You
are
thus
expiating
the
loss
of
my
innocence.
O
God,
detach
me
from
all
earthly
objects;
make
me
strip
myself
of
all
sensitive
affections
and
abhor
everything
pertaining
to
the world or to sin. Amen.
IX. Jesus falls for the third time
O
Jesus,
divine
Lamb,
here
You
have
arrived
at
the
altar
of
Your
sacrifice!
Is
it
possible
that
You
let
Yourself
be
stripped
of
Your
robe,
as
if
to
reopen
all
Your
wounds,
still
bleeding?
Oh,
may
this
violence
which
tears
off
Your
clothes
without
pity,
with
the
shreds
of
bruised
flesh
attached
to
them,
touch
me
and
penetrate
me
with
a
holy
confusion,
at
the
thought
that
You
are
thus
expiating
the
loss
of
my
innocence.
O
God,
detach
me
from
all
earthly
objects;
make
me
strip
myself
of
all
sensitive
affections
and
abhor
everything
pertaining
to
the world or to sin. Amen.
X. Jesus is stripped of His garments
O
Jesus,
voluntarily
stretched
out
on
the
cross,
in
what
state
I
see
You,
under
the
blows
of
the
hammers
that
drive
the
nails
in
Your
feet
and
in
Your
hands!
Your
flesh
torn!
Your
nerves
broken!
Your
veins
open!
What
torments!
Ah,
Lord,
from
now
on
I
want
to
crucify
my
flesh
with
all
its
desires;
I
want
to
remain
constantly
bound with You on the cross. Amen.
XI. Jesus is nailed to the Cross
O
Jesus,
who
died
on
the
cross,
after
a
cruel
agony
of
three
hours,
all
is
thus
consummated;
You
have
died
for
me,
the
willing
victim
of
Your
love
for
the
salvation
of
sinners.
Would
I
be
so
unfortunate
as
to
fall
again
into
sin?
Ah,
rather,
O
my
Saviour,
grant
me
the
grace
to
die
for
You;
or
if
I
am
to
live
still,
let
me
live
only
to
love
You
and
serve
You
faithfully
all
the
days
of
my
life,
until
I give my soul into Your hands. Amen.
XII. Jesus dies on the Cross for our salvation
O
Jesus,
come
down
from
the
cross,
I
revere
You
with
religious
respect,
as
the
holocaust
of
our
redemption…
O
my
soul,
see
to
what
extent
Jesus
Christ
has
loved
you:
contemplate
this
pallid
face,
this
disfigured
brow,
these
extinguished
eyes,
this
closed
mouth,
these
pierced
hands
and
feet,
this
side
opened
for
your
own
salvation…
O
heroic
Mother!
O
Mary
pierced
by
a
sword
of
pain,
I
mourn
Your
profound
affliction
at
the
sight
of
Your
holy
Son
lifeless
and
motionless.
Obtain
for
me
the
grace
to
always
hate
sin,
the
cause
of
His
death,
and
to
always
live
as
a
true
Christian,
in
order
to
attain
eternal
salvation. Amen.
XIII. Jesus is taken down from the Cross
XIV. Jesus is laid in the tomb
O holy Mother of Sorrows,
impress upon my poor heart
the wounds of my sweet Saviour.
Let Us Pray.
O
God,
who
have
willed
to
sanctify
the
cross,
this
sign
of
life,
by
the
precious
blood
of
Your
only
begotten
Son,
grant
to
all
those
who
glory
in
this
holy
cross,
the
grace
to
be
able
to
glory
also,
at
all
times
and
in
all
places,
in
Your
powerful
protection,
through
the same Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
O Jesus Crucified!
Help us to carry our cross as You carried Yours!
Way of the Cross
of Mercy
Preparatory Prayer.
O
Jesus!
We
are
going
to
walk
with
You
on
the
road
to
Calvary
which
was
so
painful
for
You.
Make
us
understand
the
greatness
of
Your
sufferings,
touch
our
hearts
with
a
tender
compassion
at
the
sight
of
Your
torments,
so
that
may
increase
in
us
the
regret
of
our
faults
and
the
love
we
want
to
have
for
You.
Please
apply
to
us
all
the
infinite
merits
of
Your
Passion,
and
in
memory
of
Your
sufferings,
have
mercy
on
the
souls
in
Purgatory,
especially
on
those who are most abandoned.
O
divine
Mary,
who
first
taught
us
to
walk
the
Way
of
the
Cross,
obtain
for
us
the
grace
to
follow
Jesus
with
the
sentiments
with
which
Your
Heart
was
filled
while
accompanying
Him
on
the
road
to
Calvary.
May
we
weep
with
You,
and
love
Your
divine
Son
as
You
do.
We
ask
this
in
the
name
of
His
adorable Heart. Amen.
O
Jesus,
innocent
victim
condemned
to
death
by
an
unjust
sentence,
so
often
endorsed
and
renewed
by
my
guilty
offenses,
preserve
me
always
from
the
sentence
of
an
eternal
death
which
I
have
so
often
deserved.
Ah!
without
Your
support,
I
would
already
be
living
in
the
night
of
hell.
How
much
I
am
indebted
to
Your
mercy
for
not
having
fallen into the abyss!… Amen.
I. Jesus is condemned to death
O
Jesus,
O
my
beloved
Saviour,
You
wanted
to
carry
on
Your
own
shoulders
the
instrument
of
Your
torment,
this
cross
made
heavier
by
my
iniquities!
Ah,
show
me
all
the
enormity
of
my
offences,
so
that
I
may
grieve
for
them
unceasingly,
and
until
the
end of my life. Amen.
II. Jesus takes up His Cross
O
Jesus,
so
deeply
saddened!
O
Mother,
so
painfully
afflicted!
Ah,
if
in the past, my illusions or
my
disorders
were
the
cause
of
Your
anguish
and
sorrows,
it
will
no
longer
be
so,
with
the
help
of
divine
grace.
No,
from
now
on
I
will
no
longer
be
a
source
of
bitterness
and
affliction
for
such
a
tender
Son
and
Mother;
O
Jesus,
O
Mary,
I
will
love
You
faithfully
throughout
my
life
and
until
my
death.
Amen.
IV. Jesus encounters His Most Holy Mother
Happy
the
Cyrenian
who
helps
You,
O
Jesus,
to
carry
Your
cross!
Happier
would
I
be
if,
moved
by
Your
example
and
moved
by
Your
weariness,
I
would
help
You
to
carry
Your
cross,
embracing
with
submission,
with
patience
and
with
joy
all
the
crosses
that
You
will
be
pleased
to
send
me
in
the
course
of
my
life!
O
divine
Model,
grant
me
this
grace. Amen.
V. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry His Cross
O
Jesus,
the
most
beautiful
of
the
children
of
men
and
the
most
horribly
disfigured
for
our
sins,
I
approach
You
with
the
courageous
Veronica,
to
contemplate
Your
forehead
covered
with
blood
and
sweat,
and
I
am
moved
with
her
at
the
sight
of
such
a
spectacle.
Ah,
You
have
deigned
to
impress
the
august
features
of
Your
face
on
the
veil
she
used
to
wipe
it!
I
beseech
You,
Lord,
deign
to
imprint
in
my
soul
the
permanent
memory
of
the
outrages
You
have
received
and
the
atrocious
pains
You
have
endured
for sinners. Amen.
VI. Veronica wipes the Face of Jesus
O
Jesus,
here
You
are
a
second
time
succumbing
under
the
heavy
burden
of
the
cross,
in
the
midst
of
the
imprecations
and
blasphemies
of
an
impious
and
sacrilegious
soldiery;
and
my
relapses
into
sin
have
joined
this
torrent
of
insults!
Ah,
Lord,
help
my
weakness,
give
me
the
courage
to
put
into
practice
the
most
effective means to avoid falling back into sin. Amen.
VII. Jesus falls for the second time
O
Jesus,
You
forgot
for
a
moment
Your
distress,
in
order
to
attend
only
to
the
tears
of
the
pious
women
of
Jerusalem
who
were
following
You
in
order
to
instruct
them
of
the
cause
of
Your
sorrows
and
to
console
their
grief
with
the
sweet
unction
of
Your
words.
Teach
me
also
to
weep
over
my
offenses,
to
anticipate
Your
justice,
to
entrust
myself
only
to
Your
infinite
mercy
and
to
correspond to all Your holy inspirations. Amen.
VIII. Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
O
Jesus,
divine
Lamb,
here
You
have
arrived
at
the
altar
of
Your
sacrifice!
Is
it
possible
that
You
let
Yourself
be
stripped
of
Your
robe,
as
if
to
reopen
all
Your
wounds,
still
bleeding?
Oh,
may
this
violence
which
tears
off
Your
clothes
without
pity,
with
the
shreds
of
bruised
flesh
attached
to
them,
touch
me
and
penetrate
me
with
a
holy
confusion,
at
the
thought
that
You
are
thus
expiating
the
loss
of
my
innocence.
O
God,
detach
me
from
all
earthly
objects;
make
me
strip
myself
of
all
sensitive
affections
and
abhor
everything
pertaining
to
the
world or to sin. Amen.
IX. Jesus falls for the third time
O
Jesus,
divine
Lamb,
here
You
have
arrived
at
the
altar
of
Your
sacrifice!
Is
it
possible
that
You
let
Yourself
be
stripped
of
Your
robe,
as
if
to
reopen
all
Your
wounds,
still
bleeding?
Oh,
may
this
violence
which
tears
off
Your
clothes
without
pity,
with
the
shreds
of
bruised
flesh
attached
to
them,
touch
me
and
penetrate
me
with
a
holy
confusion,
at
the
thought
that
You
are
thus
expiating
the
loss
of
my
innocence.
O
God,
detach
me
from
all
earthly
objects;
make
me
strip
myself
of
all
sensitive
affections
and
abhor
everything
pertaining
to
the
world or to sin. Amen.
X. Jesus is stripped of His garments
O
Jesus,
voluntarily
stretched
out
on
the
cross,
in
what
state
I
see
You,
under
the
blows
of
the
hammers
that
drive
the
nails
in
Your
feet
and
in
Your
hands!
Your
flesh
torn!
Your
nerves
broken!
Your
veins
open!
What
torments!
Ah,
Lord,
from
now
on
I
want
to
crucify
my
flesh
with
all
its
desires;
I
want
to
remain
constantly
bound
with
You on the cross. Amen.
XI. Jesus is nailed to the Cross
XII. Jesus dies on the Cross for our salvation
O
Jesus,
who
died
on
the
cross,
after
a
cruel
agony
of
three
hours,
all
is
thus
consummated;
You
have
died
for
me,
the
willing
victim
of
Your
love
for
the
salvation
of
sinners.
Would
I
be
so
unfortunate
as
to
fall
again
into
sin?
Ah,
rather,
O
my
Saviour,
grant
me
the
grace
to
die
for
You;
or
if
I
am
to
live
still,
let
me
live
only
to
love
You
and
serve
You
faithfully
all
the
days
of
my
life,
until
I
give
my
soul
into Your hands. Amen.
O
Jesus,
come
down
from
the
cross,
I
revere
You
with
religious
respect,
as
the
holocaust
of
our
redemption…
O
my
soul,
see
to
what
extent
Jesus
Christ
has
loved
you:
contemplate
this
pallid
face,
this
disfigured
brow,
these
extinguished
eyes,
this
closed
mouth,
these
pierced
hands
and
feet,
this
side
opened
for
your
own
salvation…
O
heroic
Mother!
O
Mary
pierced
by
a
sword
of
pain,
I
mourn
Your
profound
affliction
at
the
sight
of
Your
holy
Son
lifeless
and
motionless.
Obtain
for
me
the
grace
to
always
hate
sin,
the
cause
of
His
death,
and
to
always
live
as
a
true
Christian,
in
order
to
attain
eternal salvation. Amen.
XIII. Jesus is taken down from the Cross
O
Jesus,
so
deeply
saddened!
O
Mother,
so
painfully
afflicted!
Ah,
if
in
the
past,
my
illusions
or
my
disorders
were
the
cause
of
Your
anguish
and
sorrows,
it
will
no
longer
be
so,
with
the
help
of
divine
grace.
No,
from
now
on
I
will
no
longer
be
a
source
of
bitterness
and
affliction
for
such
a
tender
Son
and
Mother;
O
Jesus,
O
Mary,
I
will
love
You
faithfully
throughout
my
life
and
until
my
death.
Amen.
III. Jesus falls for the first time
O
Jesus,
deposited
from
the
cross
in
the
tomb,
I
also
want,
as
one
who
has
died
to
everything,
to
be
inseparable
from
You
in
the
solitude
and
silence
of
a
life
hidden
in
God
with
You.
O
glorious
sepulchre,
where
the
precious
pledge
of
my
salvation
rests,
may
I
also
have
a
new
heart
adorned
with
virtues,
to
receive
there
the
adorable
body
of
Jesus!
O
my
Saviour,
prepare
in
me
a
dwelling
worthy
of
You;
make
me
live
no
longer
for
myself,
but
for
You
alone,
who
died
for
me;
or
rather,
live
alone
in
me
from
now
on,
so
that
after
having
received
here
below,
in
Your
sacraments,
the
first
fruits
of
the
merits
of
Your
passion
and
Your
death,
I
may
one
day receive them in the fullness of Heaven. Amen.
XIV. Jesus is laid in the tomb
Let Us Pray.
O
God,
who
have
willed
to
sanctify
the
cross,
this
sign
of
life,
by
the
precious
blood
of
Your
only
begotten
Son,
grant
to
all
those
who
glory
in
this
holy
cross,
the
grace
to
be
able
to
glory
also,
at
all
times
and
in
all
places,
in
Your
powerful
protection,
through
the
same
Jesus
Christ
Our
Lord. Amen.
O holy Mother of Sorrows,
impress upon my poor heart
the wounds of my sweet Saviour.
