The Way Of The Cross - Stations Of The Cross

in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen oh my god i am heartily sorry for having offended you and i detest all my sins because i dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell but most of all because they offend you my god who are all good and deserving of all my love i firmly resolve with the help of your grace to confess my sins to do penance and to amend my life amen we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world first station jesus is condemned to death consider how jesus after having been scourged and crowned with thorns was unjustly condemned by pilate to die on the cross my adorable jesus it was not pilate no it was my sins that condemned you to die i beseech you by the merits of this sorrowful journey to assist my soul in its journey towards eternity i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world second station jesus carries his cross 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 my most beloved jesus i embrace all the tribulations you have destined for me until death i beseech you by the merits of the pain you did suffer in carrying your cross to give me the necessary help to carry mine with perfect patience and resignation i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world third station jesus falls the first time consider this first fall of jesus under his cross his flesh was torn by the scourges his head crowned with thorns and he had lost a great quantity of blood he was so weakened that he could scarcely walk and yet he had to carry this great load upon his shoulders the soldiers struck him rudely and thus he fell several times in his journey my beloved jesus it is not the weight of the cross but my sins which have made you suffer so much pain by the merits of this first fall deliver me from the misfortune of falling into mortal sin i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world fourth station jesus meets his sorrowful mother consider the meeting of the son and the mother which took place on this journey jesus and mary looked at each other and their looks became as so many arrows to wound those hearts which loved each other so tenderly my most loving jesus by the sorrow you did experience in this meeting grant me the grace of the truly devoted love for your most holy mother and you my queen who were overwhelmed with sorrow obtained from me by your intercession a continual and tender remembrance of the passion of your son i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world fifth station simon helps jesus carry the cross consider how each step jesus was on the point of expiring and fearing that he would die on the way when they wished him to die the shameful death of the cross they constrained simon the syrian to carry the cross behind our lord my most sweet jesus i will not refuse the cross as a cyrenian did i accept it i embrace it i accept in particular the death you have destined for me with all the pains that may accompany it i unite it to your death i offer it to you help me by your grace i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world sixth station veronica wipes the face of jesus consider how the holy woman named veronica seeing jesus so afflicted and his face bathed in sweat and blood presented him with a veil with which he wiped his adorable face leaving on it the impression of his holy countenance my most beloved jesus my soul also once beautiful when it received your grace and baptism but i have disfigured it since by my sins you alone my redeemer can restore it to its former beauty do this by your passion oh jesus i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world seventh station jesus falls the second time consider the second fall of jesus under the cross a fall which renews the pain of all the wounds of the sacred head and members of our afflicted lord my most gentle jesus how many times you have pardoned me and how many times have i fallen again and begun again to offend you by the merits of this new fall give me the necessary help to persevere in your grace until death grant that in all temptations which assail me i may always command myself to you i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world eighth station the women weep over jesus consider how those women wept with compassionate seeing jesus in such a pitiable state streaming with blood as he walked along but jesus said to them weep not for me but for your children my jesus laden with sorrows i weep for the offenses i have committed against you because of the pains they have deserved and still more because of the displeasure they have caused you who have loved me so much it is your love more than the fear of hell which causes me to weep for my sins i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world ninth station jesus falls the third time consider the third fall of jesus christ his weakness was extreme and the cruelty of his executioners was excessive who tried to hasten his steps when he had scarcely strength to move my exhausted jesus by the merits of the weakness you did suffer in going to calvary give me strength sufficient to conquer all human respect and all my wicked passions which have led me to despise your friendship i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world tenth station jesus is stripped of his garments consider the violence with which the executioners stripped jesus his inner garments adhered to his lacerated flesh and they tore them off so roughly that the skin came with them compassionate your savior thus cruelly treated and say to him my innocent jesus by the merits of the torment you have felt help me to strip myself of all affection for things of earth in order that i may place all my love in you who are so worthy of my love i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world 11th station jesus is nailed to the cross consider how jesus after being thrown on the cross extended his hands and offered to his eternal father the sacrifice of his life for our salvation these barbarians fastened him with nails and then raised in the cross allowed him to die with anguish on this infamous give it my jesus loaded with contempt nail my heart to your feet that it may ever remain there to love you and never leave you again i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world 12th station jesus dies on the cross consider how jesus after three hours agony on the cross consumed at length with anguish abandons himself to the weight of his body bows his head and dies oh my dying jesus i kiss devoutly the cross on which you died for love of me i have merited by my sins to die a miserable death but your death is my hope by the merits of your death give me grace to die embracing your feet and burning with love for you i surrender my soul into your hands i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world 13th station jesus is taken from the cross consider how after the death of our lord two of his disciples joseph and nicodemus took him down from the cross and placed him in the arms of his afflicted mother who received him with unutterable tenderness and pressed him to her bosom o mother of sorrow for the love of this son accept me for your servant and pray to him for me and you my redeemer since you have died for me permit me to love you for i wish but you and nothing more i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will we adore you o christ and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world 14th station jesus is laid in the tomb consider how the disciples carried the body of jesus to bury it accompanied by his holy mother who arranged it in the tomb with her own hands then they closed the tomb and all withdrew oh my buried jesus i kiss the stone that has enclosed you but you did rise again the third day i beseech you by your resurrection make me rise gloriously with you on the last day to be always united with you in heaven to praise and love you forever i love you oh jesus with my whole heart i repent of having offended you never permit me to offend you again grant that i may love you always and then do with me what you will our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen you

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Keywords: Way of the Cross, Stations of the Cross, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Devotional prayer, Confession, Dennis Girard, Angelina Girard, Lent, Divine Mercy Rosary, Dennis & Angelina Girard

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Length: 22min 21sec (1341 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 05 2015