First
Station: Jesus is condemned to death.
Consider the admirable submissiveness of Our - Lord, innocent, to
receive an iniquitous sentence of death, to deserve us the eternal
life. Know it: these are your sins that signed this unjust condemnation.
Oh my soft Jesus, what love is yours! For me, sinner, you wanted
to endure the jail, the chains, the bellows, and the shame of this
ignoble condemnation to death. This of it is enough to touch my
heart and to make me hate all my sins. During this exercise of the
path of the Cross, I want to repeat often: My Jesus, mercy! |
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Second
Station: Jesus is put in charge of the cross
Consider how Jesus, bathed of blood and overwhelmed of pains,
kiss the cross on which he/it is going to die. However you, you
would refuse the cross of a sincere penitence. Don't know yourselves
therefore that, without the cross, one doesn't enter to the sky!
Oh my Savior, give me strength to accept chrétiennement
all sufferings of this life. Make that, always united here below
to the cross, I can by her, one day, to arrive to the Paradise. |
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Third
Station: Jesus falls for the first time
Consider how Jesus, weakened by the continual loss of his/her/its
blood, and struck without mercy by the soldiers, tomb on the ground
a first time! However Jesus is quiet, while lightest pain is sufficient
to annoy you, to make you whisper to revolt you. Oh my Jesus,
mercy! Of my falls, raise me while giving me the hand, grant me
the grace of more to fall again in the sin. I want, while carrying
the crosses that he/it will please you to send me, to assure,
on the day of my death, the business important of my eternal salute,
generously. |
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Fourth
Station: Jesus meets his Mother
Consider the pain of Jesus' heart, the anguish of heart of Marie,
in this meeting. Don't you hear how, in their pains, they complain
about you? - "What pain made you my Jesus?" t di the
afflicted Mother. - "What pain made you my mother?"
- says Jesus saddened. Oh agreeable Jesus, mercy! Forgive, oh
my Savior, to your Mother's poor servant! And you, oh incomparable
Mother, mercy! Forgive to your Son's most miserable servant! Make,
oh Jesus, my Savior, oh Marie, my mother, that by your double
intercessions, I find mercy, by God, on the day terrifying of
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Fifth
Station: Simon helps Jesus to carry the cross.
Consider the Cyrénéen. As he/it, by cowardice, vowed
have fear of the cross of Jesus Christ. Come therefore, with readiness,
to relieve your Savior. Accept the tests that send you his/her/its
divine Providence generously. Oh very Jesus magnet, I return you
graces of so many opportunities that you gave me to suffer pure
vows and to deserve for me. Grant-moi,ô my God, to support
with patience the pains of this existence and to deserve goods
of the eternal life.
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Sixth
Station: A woman wipes Jesus' face.
Consider, on this veil, the picture of Jesus exhausted. In love
of love, form some a carried expressive in your heart, and propose
yourselves of ever to let come it out of your memory. Oh my Savior,
bloody and disfigured, me your implores some, print in my heart
your very agreeable and divine face. Feeling in me an ardent love
and a beneficial fear, I don't want another one henceforth things
in my life that to know you, to like you, to serve you and by
la`obtenir the eternal life. |
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Seventh
Station: Jesus falls a second time.
Consider your Savior, dejected by the pain, on the ground falling,
strained to the feet by his/her/its enemies. The reason of this
second fall, it is your clean love and your pride. Oh my Redeeming
saint, in spite of the miserable state some which I see you, I
confess while you are the All-Powerful. I implore you humbly to
lower my proud thoughts, so that, forming acts of a sincere humility
I kiss good heart the lowering and the contempt. |
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Eighth
Station: Jesus speaks to the girls of Jerusalem
Consider a double motive to cry: on Jesus who suffers so much
because of you, on yourself that, by your sins, deserve the eternal
odium. Hey well! At the sight of so many pains in JESUS, in front
of such a perspective of misfortunes for your soul, would you
remain even insensible?
Agreeable Jesus, why doesn't my heart flow it in a torrent of
tears? Prostrate to your feet, I ask you humbly, grant me this
compassion that you had for the holy women. Look at me, in this
life, with a look of mercy, so that I can myself to look at you
with insurance at the hour of my death. |
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Ninth
Station: Jesus falls for the third time
Consider with what fury the soldiers, as ferocious wolves with
them pray, drag Jesus, the striking with the heel of their shoes,
with the handle of their spears, tramples it, and dive it, in
this third fall, entirely in the mud. Oh God all-powerful, whose
finger sustains the sky and the earth, who was therefore able
to you to make suffer and of the sort? I only know too much it,
these are my sins. It is why e prostrated before you and, to give
you some relief, I retell you, while sighing and while crying:
My Jesus, mercy! |
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Tenth Station: Jesus is stripped of his clothes
Consider how one removes to Jesus of the flesh shreds with his/her/its
dress, renew the injuries of the flogging thus. To our Savior's
view, whose body is only an immense wound, you would not be moved
of mercy? Oh very soft Jesus, what horrible contrast! You are
only injuries, wounds and blood. I am only delights, vanity and
gentleness! Detach me, even in spite of me, of goods, of honors,
of the pleasures of this life. Make me henceforth taste the fruits
of your Passion, in order to manage one day to share with you
the joys of the Paradise, solely. |
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Eleventh
Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
Consider Jesus' excessive pain, when his/her/its hands and his/her/its
feet were transfixed by the nails. The doubled strokes broke the
veins and his/her/its nerves, tore his/her/its divine flesh, until
finally his/her/its sacred body was appendu to the cross. How
would not you feel transfixed by the pain and the remorse of your
sins? Oh very lenient Jesus, constantly print in my heart this
scene of your crucifixion, so that after having cried my mistakes,
I have e happiness to live and to die by love louse you, deserving
by there of to reign one day gloriously with you in the sky. |
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Twelfth
Station: Jesus dies on the cross
Raise the eyes and see the agreeable Jesus, suspended to the cross!
Contemplate your dying savior, Observe how he/it prays for his/its
executioners: he/it commits gives the Paradise to the good thief;
how he/it lets his/its holy Mother to the cares of Jean saint:
how he/it recommends his/its soul to his/her/its Father and dies
while inclining the head. Oh agreeable Savior, I recognize it
and confess it, my sins were the pitiless executioners of your
Passion and your death, I now understand the size of your mercy.
This mercy, I want to get it during my life: I want it at the
hour of my death, to hear your soft way to tell me,: " Today,
you will be s with me in the Paradise." |
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Thirteenth
Station: Jesus descended of the cross.
Consider the incomparable pain of the Virgin Mother, when one
handed him, between the arms, his/her/its inanimate Son, frozen
by the death.
Oh Queen of the martyrs, when I will be worthy to understand your
pains and to sympathize there? Oh Marie, make that your tears
don't flow uselessly for me! Hit my heart of pain. I want to cry
my sins, reason of your sufferings. Living in the repentance,
the love and the hope, I will deserve to rejoice me, one day,
with you in the sky |
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Fourteenth
Station: Jesus is deposited in the tomb
Consider the tears of the faithful disciples, when Jesus, their
divine Mr., was shut in in the tomb. But consider the desolation
of Marie's heart also, while seeing itself/themselves private
of his/her/its beloved Son. Oh Jesus, by love for me, you undertook
this path so painful of Mount Calvary, you died and shut in in
the sepulcher. Me your adores however and I ask you to give me
the grace to die to the world, to the sin and to myself, make
that after himself holy exercise of the path of the Cross, I begin
a new life and that I persevere there to receive, to my death,
the fruit of your very precious redemption, the eternal glory
in the sky. So either him? |
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