Jesus Falls a Second Time  

~ 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:  JESUS  STRUGGLES DESPERATELY TO STAY ON HIS FEET, BUT QUICKLY COLLAPSES AND FALLS HARD BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS A SECOND TIME. MANY IN THE CROWD CURSE AND MOCK HIM AS HIS WOUNDED BODY STRIKES THE GROUND. THE FALL CAUSES JESUS GREAT PAIN AS HIS WOUNDS TEAR OPEN ONCE AGAIN. THE SOLDIERS, INCENSED AT HIM FOR HAVING FALLEN AGAIN, BEAT HIM AND ROUGHLY PULL HIM BY HIS HAIR AND BEARD IN AN EFFORT TO FORCE HIM TO HIS FEET.

~ KNEEL ~

ALL: ALMIGHTY GOD AND FATHER, THROUGH MARY IMMACULATE, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON JESUS, WHICH FLOWED COPIOUSLY FROM THE MANY WOUNDS THAT RE„OPENED IN HIS SECOND FALL. I UNITE THIS OFFERING WITH THE TERRIBLE PAIN AND SUFFERING HE ENDURED AT THE HANDS OF THE ROMAN SOLDIERS. I PRAY DEAR FATHER, BY VIRTUE OF THIS SUFFERING MOMENT OF THY DIVINE SON JESUS, TO PERSEVERE IN THY LOVE AND IN ONLY THAT WHICH PLEASES THEE.

OUR FATHER¼HAIL MARY¼GLORY BE¼

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

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