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Engraving by Antonio Baratta -- 1778
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V: We adore Thee, O Christ, and bless Thee.
R: Because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world
Leaving the House of Caiphas, and dragged
before Pilate and Herod, mocked, beaten, and spit upon, His back torn with
scourges, His head crowned with thorns, Jesus, who on the last day will
judge the world, is Himself condemned by unjust judges to a death of ignominy
and torture.
Jesus is condemned to death. His death warrant
is signed, and who signed it but I, when I committed my first mortal sins?
My first mortal sins, when I fell away from the state of grace into which
Thou didst place me by baptism; these it was that were Thy death warrant,
O Lord. The innocent suffered for the guilty. This sins of mine were the
voices which cried out, "Let Him be crucified." That willingness
and delight of heart with which I committed them was the consent which
Pilate gave to this clamorous multitude. And the hardness of heart which
followed upon them, my disgust, my despair, my proud impatience, my obstinate
resolve to sin on, the love of sin which took possession of me -- what
were these contrary and impetuous feelings but the blows and the blasphemies
with which the fierce soldiers and the populace received Thee, thuss carrying
out the sentence which Pilate had pronounced.
Our Father...
Hail Mary...
Glory Be to the Father...
V: Jesus Christ Crucified.
R: Have mercy on Us.
V: May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of
God rest in peace.
R: Amen
The Stations of the Cross, John Henry Cardinal Newman
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