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Jesus is Taken Down from
the Cross
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Kneel
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Presider:
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We adore you, O Christ, and we praise
you.
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All:
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Because by your holy cross you have
redeemed the world.
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Arise
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Presider:
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The multitude have left the heights
of Calvary, and none remain save the Beloved Disciple
and the holy women, who at the foot of the cross are
striving to stem the grief of Christ's most loving Mother.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take the body of her
Divine Son from the cross, and deposit it in her arms.
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O Mary, blessed Mother of my God,
you bear in your arms your only son, now dead, who often
rested his head in sleep upon your breast. Pray for
us, that as you hold him lifeless in death, he may bear
us up in the hour of our death in his everlasting arms.
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Reader:
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There was a man named Joseph, an upright
and holy member of the Sanhedrin. He was from Arimathea,
and he looked expectantly for the reign of God. This
man approached Pilate with a request for Jesus' body.
He took it down and wrapped it in fine linen.
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All:
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Come, all you who pass by the way, look
and see whether there is any suffering like my suffering.
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All sing:
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Let me mingle tears with you,
Mourning him who mourned for me,
All the days that I may live.
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Station 12
