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The Women of Jerusalem Mourn for Jesus
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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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At the sight of the sufferings of Jesus,
some holy women in the crowd were so touched with sympathy
that they openly bewailed and lamented him. Jesus, knowing
the things that were to come to pass, said, "Daughters
of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves
and for your children."
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O Lord Jesus, we mourn both for you
and for ourselves, for your sufferings and for our sins
which caused them. Oh, teach us so to mourn that we
may be comforted, and escape those judgments prepared
for all who reject you.
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Reader:
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Yet it was our infirmities that he bore,
our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of
him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our
sins, upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole;
by his stripes we were healed.
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All:
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Ruth said, "Do not ask me to abandon
or forsake you! For wherever you go, I will go, wherever
you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people,
and your God, my God."
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All sing:
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For the sins of his own nation,
Saw him hang in desolation,
'Til his spirit forth he sent.
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Station 7
