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Jesus Falls the First Time
under the Weight of the Cross
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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Bowed down under the weight of the Cross,
Jesus slowly sets forth on the way to Calvary, amidst
the mockeries and insults of the crowd. His agony in
the garden has exhausted his body, he is sore with blows
and wounds; his strength fails him, he falls to the
ground under the Cross. |
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O Jesus, who for our sins bore the heavy burden of the cross, and fell under its weight, may the thought of your sufferings make us watchful over ourselves, and save us from any grievous fall into sin. |
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Reader: |
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There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. |
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All: |
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We groan while we are here, even as
we yearn to have our heavenly habitation envelop us. |
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All sing: |
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Oh, how sad and sore distressed,
Was that Mother highly blessed,
Of the sole begotten one! |
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Station 2
