“O, Beloved Wood”.
“O, Blessed Nails”.
“O, Sweet Burden”.
Illustration: PINTEREST
Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Indulgences: One Plenary Indulgence each time; another Plenary Indulgence if Holy Communion is received on the same day, or ten times within the month following that exercise.
If it remained unfinished, Ten Years and Ten Quarantines for each Station visited.
(20 October 1931).
Conditions:
1. To visit each Station, unless it is impossible owing to the crowd.
[Pictures of the fourteen several Mysteries are very useful, but are not indispensable. Wooden Crosses, indicating the fourteen Stations of The Cross, are sufficient and are absolutely required.]
2. To meditate, as best one can, on The Passion of The Saviour.
No vocal Prayers are required. The Popes recommend the recitation of a Pater, an Ave, and an Act of Contrition, at each Station (April 1731).
When The Way of The Cross is made in public, a Verse of “The Stabat Mater” may be sung between each Station.
The Fourteenth Station.
Jesus Is Laid In The Sepulchre.
Versicle: We adore Thee, O, Christ, and we bless Thee.
Response: Because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.
Priest.
The body of her dearly beloved Son is taken from His Mother, and laid by the disciples in the tomb.
The tomb is closed, and there the lifeless body remains until the hour of Its glorious Resurrection.
Prayer.
We, too, O, God, will descend into the grave whenever it shall please Thee, as it shall please Thee, and wheresoever it shall please Thee.
Let Thy just decrees be fulfilled; let our sinful bodies return to their parent dust, but do Thou, in Thy great mercy, receive our immortal Souls, and, when our bodies have risen again, place them, likewise, in Thy Kingdom that we may love and Bless Thee for ever and ever.
Amen.
An Act of Contrition.
O, God, we love Thee with our whole hearts, and above all things, and are heartily sorry that we have offended Thee.
May we never offend Thee any more. O, may we love Thee without ceasing, and make it our delight to do in all things Thy Most Holy Will.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory Be To The Father . . .
Have mercy on us, O, Lord. Have mercy on us.
Versicle: May the Souls of the Faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
This Act of Contrition is to be repeated after each Station.
While passing from one Station to another, a Verse of the “Stabat Mater” is sung or said.
Versicle:
Juxta crucem tecum stare,
Et me tibi sociáre,
In planctu desídero.
Response:
Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifíxi fige plagas,
Cordi meo válide.
This Concludes The Way Of The Cross.
