Stations of the Cross / Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem

Photographed by Maureen Polizzi
St Joseph's Oratory, Montreal

Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem  

~ STAND ~

LEADER:   WE ADORE THEE O CHRIST AND WE PRAISE THEE;      

 ~ GENUFLECT ~ 

ALL:   BECAUSE BY THY HOLY CROSS, THOU HAST REDEEMED THE WORLD.

~ STAND ~

LEADER:  MANY IN THE CROWD WHO ONCE LOVED AND REVERED JESUS,

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NOW CURSE HIM AND TAKE PLEASURE IN HIS SUFFERING. THEIR MALICE CAUSES HIM GREAT SORROW AND GREAT PAIN. FOR A BRIEF MOMENT, JESUS PAUSES AND SLOWLY TURNS TO ACKNOWLEDGE A GROUP OF WOMEN IN THE CROWD WHO ARE WEEPING BITTERLY FOR HIM. HE RECOGNIZES THEIR FACES AS THOSE WHO WERE AMONG THE MANY WHO OFTEN LISTENED TO HIM PREACH IN THE MARKET PLACE AND STREETS OF JERUSALEM. THEIR GRIEF FOR JESUS DEEPLY TOUCHES HIS HEART AND SO, OUT OF CONCERN FOR THEM, HE MANAGES TO GATHER THE STRENGTH TO SPEAK.

~ KNEEL ~

ALL: ALMIGHTY GOD AND FATHER, THROUGH MARY IMMACULATE, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON JESUS, WHICH FLOWED FROM THE HUGE WOUND IN HIS SHOULDER THAT BORE THE CROSS. I UNITE THIS OFFERING WITH THE COMPASSION AND CONCERN JESUS SHOWED THE WEEPING WOMEN OF JERUSALEM WHEN HE URGED THEM NOT TO WEEP FOR HIM, BUT FOR THEIR SINS AND THE SINS OF THEIR CHILDREN. I PRAY DEAR FATHER, BY THE INFINITE MERITS OF THIS LOVING MOMENT, FOR THE COURAGE, THE WISDOM AND THE KNOWLEDGE TO COUNSEL MANY TOWARD THE LIGHT OF THINE INFINITE LOVE, THROUGH THE TEACHINGS THY BELOVED SON JESUS IMPARTED ON US IN HIS ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

OUR FATHER¼HAIL MARY¼GLORY BE¼

LORD JESUS CRUCIFIED, HAVE MERCY ON ME, A WRETCHED SINNER.

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