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Jesus Receives 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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A heavy cross is laid upon the bruised
shoulders of Jesus. He receives it with meekness, nay
with a secret joy, for it is the instrument with which
he is to redeem the world. What efforts do we make,
on the other hand, to escape all suffering as far as
we can?
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O Jesus, grant us, by virtue of your
cross, to embrace with meekness and cheerful submission
the difficulties of our state of life and to be ever
ready to take up our cross and follow you.
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Reader:
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The procurator's soldiers stripped off
Jesus' clothes and wrapped him in a scarlet military
cloak. Then they began to mock him. They also spat at
him. Finally, when they had finished making a fool of
him they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his
own clothes, and led him off to crucifixion.
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All:
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Like a lamb led to the slaughter, or
a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened
not his mouth.
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All sing:
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Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,
All his bitter anguish bearing;
Now at length the sword has passed.
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Station 1
