First
Station: Jesus is condemned to death.
What spectacle! Jesus, the body plowed by the flogging, the fallen
eyes, the hands bound behind the back, listen to in silence his/her/its
stop of death, but he doesn't hear again every day of as cruel sentences?
Us sins don't condemn them Jesus to the death? When will the hour
come therefore to repair so many outrages? Here it, my brothers,
is with the hour of the exercise of the Path of the Cross. Let's
follow Jesus, with devotion, the contrite heart. We will satisfy
to the divine justice and we will get forgiveness. Yes, let's implore
Jesus, in the name of his/her/its sentence of death, not to let
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Second
Station: Jesus is put in charge of the cross
Who would not shiver of terror at the sight of this cross? One
charges it on the Savior's shoulders. Jesus accepts it by love
for us. He/it sees all our sins bound to this infamous wood. Veils
the condemned very innocence therefore, replete of outrages, and
the absolved sinner. Are not we going to rejoice us to get forgiveness
at the expense of Jesus? Do we have to let it only to carry the
cross? To God pleases! Rather sympathize to the Savior's sufferings.
Let's load this holy cross on our shoulders. Let's implore Jesus
to light in us an ardent desire to suffer, because, without the
cross, no one arrives to the glory. |
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Third
Station: Jesus falls for the first time
Jesus exhausted, overwhelmed of strokes, jostled, succumb under
the burden of the cross. His/her/its injuries reopen themselves;
his/her/its crown of thorn penetrates more and more. In this third
stations, recognize it, sinners, that is your pride that reversed
Jesus on the floor! Oh Jesus, grant us the grace of the humility.
Open our eyes on our miseries to cry our sins, only reason of
your falls. |
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Fourth
Station: Jesus meets his Mother
In this meeting, Marie, hurried by the love, wants to kiss a last
time his/her/its beloved Son. But the executioners repulse it.
Does she/it deliver herself/itself then, entire to his/her/its
pain "OH sinner, does say itself her, that I have you fact,
that made you my innocent Jesus, to torment us so cruelly? Ah!
Have piety of us, and rest, at the sight of our pains, to commit
the sin". OH divine Son, oh holy Mother, victims of our sins,
we come back to you with a contrite heart, Mercy, oh Jesus! Mercy,
oh Mayor! Forgive us you to have offended. |
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Fifth
Station: Simon helps Jesus to carry the cross.
Jesus, remote roughly of his/her/its Mother, sees his/her/its
weakness growing. Him défaille to every step. The executioners,
wanting, above all, to see it suspended to the cross, look for
someone to help it to carry his/her/its heavy burden. What do
I say? Christ himself prays you, my brothers, to relieve it a
little. He/it shows you his/her/its wounds, his/her/its sweat,
his/her/its exhaustion. What you will answer him?
Oh good Jesus! We would be well ungrateful to reject your call.
How long didn't we carry the oppressive yoke of the sin, and would
not we have courage to endure a few suffering for you? We understand
it, oh Jesus, to go to the sky, the unique means it is to carry
your cross |
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Sixth
Station: A woman wipes Jesus' face.
As he/it is disfigured, the Savior's face yet so beautiful! See-of
it him print on Véronique's veil. This gory forehead, crowned
of thorns,; these livid eyes; these cheeks soiled by the spits
and by blood; these wounds live returned it hardly recognizable,
his/her/its beauty prevailed over the one of all men. "And
there is it, told us the Isaïe prophet, without shape nor
beauty,; " Who was therefore able well to disfigure it thus?
It is the sin. He/it erased in us the divine resemblance, let's
ask therefore for forgiveness. Thus, by the repentance, in our
soul, as on Véronique's veil, will reappear the Christ's
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Seventh
Station: Jesus falls a second time.
The executioners treat Jesus, already s i weakened, with so much
violence, that they make it roll ell on the floor second time.
Ah! If we had been there to punish and to hunt these barbarians,
would think ourselves. Rather turn our indignation against ourselves,
because these are our sins, our pride, our obstinate love of the
pleasures, that makes fall the Savior. The repentance in the soul,
let's implore Jesus to grant us the complete forgiveness of our
mistakes and the firm resolution to die a thousand times rather
than to commit only one sin |
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Eighth
Station: Jesus speaks to the girls of Jerusalem
Meeting Jesus in a state so miserable, girls of Jerusalem cry
of mercy on him. But Jesus invites them to cry, no on him, but
on themselves that some misfortunes wait. You, Christian without
mercy, know it, Jesus doesn't need your tears, if you live in
the sin. Rather hear it to tell you: "Don't cry on me, but
on you, because the misfortunes of the hell wait for you".
doesn't have a middle therefore: or to convert you or your to
damn. OH! Blissful the soul that, during this exercise of the
Path of the Cross, will make an act sincere of contrition. |
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Ninth
Station: Jesus falls for the third time
Jesus is not tired to suffer for your salute, But he yet reduced
to the extremity, and he succumbs. Oh! Mercy for Jesus! Who would
therefore have again the heart to offend it? Stop, Christian!
Give up your usual pleasures! Do see Jesus on the floor, to block
you the path, will you have courage to pass besides and to trample
your Savior? Ah! My brothers, don't return to tip Jesus' patience.
Abandon the trails of the sin, cry your misplacements, make penitence. |
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Tenth
Station: Jesus is stripped of his clothes
See, says Jesus, with what confusion, by love for you, I let myself
to strip, to put to naked, and, the fleshes in shreds, to expose
to the mockery of all! Look at me! Of the feet to the head, I
am furrowed of injuries and covered of blood! For height of sufferings,
one waters me bitter gall. Do I endure all in silence, and for
whom? Do you therefore want to persevere in this sin, reason of
my sufferings?
Oh Jesus, I don't want to harden in e pain, you horrible wounds
teach me to hate vice. Forgiveness, oh good Jesus, make-me the
grace to persevere in your love until the death. |
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Eleventh
Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
The executioners, as frantic, reverse the Savior on the cross,
are armed of hammers, drive, in the hands and in the feet, of
enormous nails, they clinch the tip of these nails then, to the
wood of the cross. Contemplate Jesus nailed to the cross. He/it
endures his/its injuries a lot; but his/her/its most atrocious
torment, it is the toughness of your heart. Yet, Jesus only asks
you for a tear to repent. What do you linger? Oh my God crucified,
do transfix my heart of contrition, do penetrate it of your divine
blood, and, forever, do convert it? |
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Twelfth
Station: Jesus dies on the cross
The executioners raise the cross, of Jesus, and let it fall again
in earth of all his/her/its weight. What horrible jolt for the
Savior! His/her/its hands and his/her/its feet tear themselves,
his/her/its nerves break, streams of blood spring of his/her/its
wounds enlarged under the terrifying shock. But see like Jesus
likes you. He/it forgives to his/its executioners, he/it opens
the paradise to the thief, he/it confides his/its Mother to Jean
saint, then, before returning the soul, he/it throws a last look
toward the earth, to look for you, you sinner, and to tell you
farewell!
Ah! Sinner, will you see Jesus killed like a vile animal, pierced
of a spear like an assassin, and believe not in his/her/its love
for us and of his/her/its forgiveness? Would draw ourselves all
to die while hoping in Jesus' infinite mercy for us on the cross |
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Thirteenth
Station: Jesus descended of the cross.
Oh Marie, what crucifying pain for you, while contemplating in
your arms the hardly recognizable Jesus body, covered with injuries
and blood! I see you, in vote tribulation, kissing your Son lovingly.
Me you the holy women lavish him their tenderness and holy Jean,
as there to the last Last Supper, relaxing his/her/its head on
the chest of sound Mr.. Approach, you also, Christian, of our
savior's tomb. Speak to Marie and the fervid souls who surround
the divine Mr.; implore them to communicate you the feelings of
their heart and to make you share their thirst to sacrifice their
life for this Jesus, savior and redeeming of the souls. |
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Fourteenth
Station: Jesus is deposited in the tomb
With what anguish, the inconsolable Mother buries her beloved
Son! With what distress, before leaving, she/it kisses, a last
time, the stone of the tomb! Oh Mother of pains, condescend, at
the end of this exercise, to engrave in my heart your extreme
desolation and your Son's infamous death. Then, help me to fights
the bad passions to escape the opportunities of sin. Finally grant
me to sympathize always to your sufferings and to die one day
to the world and the sin, to live here below, of the life of the
grace, in order to arrive, to the eternal glory, So either him.
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