Jesus Dies On the Cross  

~ 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: IN DIRE TORMENT, JESUS STRUGGLES DESPERATELY TO BREATHE AS HE HANGS ON  THE CROSS DYING. ALTHOUGH WRITHING IN PAIN, HE MANAGES TO SPEAK. IN AN ACT OF UNYIELDING AND PERFECT LOVE FOR ALL WHO PERSECUTED AND TORTURED HIM, JESUS PRAYS TO HIS ALMIGHTY FATHER: FATHER . . . FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. IN AN ACT OF MERCY, JESUS FORGIVES THE REPENTANT THIEF:  AMEN, AMEN I SAY TO YOU; ON THIS DAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE. JESUS LOOKS TO HIS LOVING, HOLY MOTHER MARY AND SAYS: WOMAN, BEHOLD YOUR SON, TELLING, HER TO TAKE JOHN AND ALL OF US AS HER CHILDREN. THEN HE SAYS TO JOHN HIS BELOVED DISCIPLE: BEHOLD YOUR MOTHER,  TELLING JOHN AND ALL OF US TO TAKE MARY AS OUR MOTHER. JESUS PRAYS THE BEGINNING OF PSALM 22 MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME. WITH THESE WORDS HE IS NOT ONLY DESCRIBING HIS SUFFERING FROM THE DEPTHS OF HIS HUMAN NATURE, BUT HE IS SHARING WITH ALL MANKIND THE PROPHECY OF HIS OWN DEATH WHICH WAS REVEALED IN THIS PSALM OF DAVID THE PROPHET. JESUS SOFTLY SPEAKS THE WORDS, THIRST.ðð IN SAYING THIS, JESUS DOES NOT ASK FOR WATER, BUT PROCLAIMS HIS ENDLESS THIRST FOR THE LOVE OF  SOULS. AWARE THAT HE IS NEARING THE END OF HIS HUMAN LIFE, JESUS DECLARES THAT, IT IS FINISHED, CLAIMING THAT HIS WORK HAS BEEN FULFILLED; WITH HIS LAST BREATH, JESUS CITES PSALM 31, CRYING OUT, FATHER...  INTO THY HANDS. . . I COMMEND MY SPIRIT  JESUS THEN BOWS HIS HEAD AND DIES. . . THE EARTH TREMBLES . . . THERE IS SILENCE IN HEAVEN. . . LEGIONS OF ANGELS LAY PROSTRATE AT THE FEET OF OUR BELOVED LORD. 

LAMB OF GOD, YOU TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD HAVE MERCY ON US. ETC...  

~ KNEEL ~

ALL: ALMIGHTY GOD AND FATHER, THROUGH MARY IMMACULATE, I OFFER THEE THE MERITS OF EVERY SINGLE DROP OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD AND WATER THAT FLOWED FROM THE HEART OF THY DIVINE SON JESUS. I OFFER THEE THE EXTREME SUFFERING JESUS ENDURED WHILE ON THE CROSS, ALONG WITH THE BLOODLESS RENEWAL IN ALL THE MASSES OFFERED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SINCE THE DAWN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THOSE POOR SINNERS WHO ARE NOW IN THEIR AGONY AND ARE TO DIE THIS DAY.

OUR FATHER¼HAIL MARY¼GLORY BE¼

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

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