Jesus Is Laid In the Tomb  

~ 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: LOVING FOLLOWERS OF JESUS GRIEVE DEEPLY AS THEY CARRY HIS SACRED REMAINS WITH EXTREME CARE AND REVERENCE, TO THE UNUSED TOMB OF JOSEPH OF ARIMETHEA. HIS PRECIOUS BODY, SO BRUTALLY WOUNDED AND BROKEN, IS GENTLY PLACED IN THE SEPULCHER. THERE, HIS AFFLICTED MOTHER VIEWS HIS SACRED COUNTENANCE, ONE LAST TIME. THROUGH TEAR„FILLED EYES, SHE TAKES ONE LONG, LAST LOOK AT JESUS. IT PAINS HER SO, TO SEE HIS DISFIGURED, WOUNDED FACE, NOW BEARING SO LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO THE FACE OF HER BELOVED SON. IN DEEPEST REMORSE, SHE KISSES HIM AND THEN SLOWLY LEAVES THE SEPULCHER. HIS BODY IS CAREFULLY WRAPPED IN A CLEAN LINEN BURIAL CLOTH AND LEFT ALONE IN THE TOMB. A HUGE STONE IS ROLLED OVER THE ENTRANCE OF THE TOMB TO SEAL IT SHUT. ALL THOSE WHO STAYED NEAR TO OUR LORD THROUGHOUT HIS SUFFERING, NOW FEEL PAINFULLY ALONE. 

~KNEEL~

ALL: ALMIGHTY GOD AND FATHER, THROUGH MARY IMMACULATE, I OFFER THEE THY SWEET, BELOVED SON AS HE LAY SO PURE AND INNOCENT IN THE TOMB, BOUND IN WHITE LINEN, AWAITING HIS MOST GLORIOUS RESURRECTION.  I UNITE THIS OFFERING WITH EVERY PRECIOUS CONSECRATED HOST THAT LAY PATIENTLY IN ALL THE SILENT TABERNACLES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WAITING TO BE CONSUMED BY WORTHY SOULS. BY THE INFINITE MERITS OF THY SON'S GLORIOUS RESURRECTION AND INESTIMABLE GIFT OF HIS BODY AND BLOOD AS FOOD FOR SOULS, I TRULY HOPE THAT OTHERS WHO HAVE NOT COME TO KNOW THEE, MAY BE DRAWN TO THE INFALLIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF THY PERFECTION, THROUGH THY SON, JESUS CHRIST.

 OUR FATHER¼HAIL MARY¼GLORY BE¼

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

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