Stations of the Cross / Jesus Is Stripped Of His Clothes

Photographed by Maureen Polizzi
St Joseph's Oratory, Montreal

Jesus Is Stripped Of His Clothes  

~ 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:  ONCE AT CALVARY, JESUS IS FORCED TO STAND. HIS

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WEAKENED BODY WAVERS AS HE DESPERATELY ATTEMPTS TO HOLD HIMSELF UP WITH ALL THE STRENGTH THAT HE CAN GATHER. THE ROMAN SOLDIERS ABRUPTLY REMOVE THE TUNIC, WOVEN BY HIS MOTHER, FROM HIS SACRED BODY. IN DOING THIS, THEY TEAR AWAY PIECES OF LACERATED FLESH WHICH HAD ADHERED TO THE INSIDE OF THE GARMENT. JESUS RECOILS FROM THE PAIN AND TREMBLES AS HIS WOUNDS RE„OPEN. HE AGAIN FEELS HIS BLOOD FLOW FRESH FROM THESE WOUNDS. MANY IN THE CROWD GASP IN HORROR AT THE HUGE WOUND ON HIS SHOULDER CAUSED BY THE CROSS. AS JESUS STRUGGLES TO STAND, THE CROWD REVILES HIM AND LAUGH AT HIM IN HIS NAKEDNESS. JESUS CLOSES HIS EYES AND CONTINUES TO PRAY TO THE FATHER TO FORGIVE THEM.  

~ KNEEL ~

ALL: ALMIGHTY GOD AND FATHER, THROUGH MARY IMMACULATE, I OFFER THEE THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THY DIVINE SON JESUS, FLOWED FROM  HIS MANY WOUNDS THAT TORE OPEN WHEN THE SOLDIERS CRUELLY STRIPPED HIM OF HIS GARMENTS BEFORE HIS MOTHER, HIS FRIENDS, AND THOSE WHO VEHEMENTLY DESPISED HIM. I UNITE THIS OFFERING WITH THE UNYIELDING LOVE AND MERCY THY BELOVED SON SHOWED HIS PERSECUTORS AS THEY POURED AN ABUNDANCE OF CRUELTY AND HATRED UPON HIM. I PRAY DEAR FATHER, BY THE INFINITE MERITS OF THIS SORROWFUL MOMENT, TO RECEIVE THE NECESSARY GRACES TO RENOUNCE MY DESIRE FOR THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND ALWAYS RESOLVE TO FOCUS ON THINE INFINITE LOVE AND PERFECTION.

OUR FATHER¼HAIL MARY¼GLORY BE¼

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

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