Thank you for keeping the atmosphere of QUIET

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• Thank you for keeping the atmosphere of QUIET
  PRAYERFULNESS in the Church.

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The Way of the Cross
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Opening

• In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
  the Holy Spirit.
• R. Amen.

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Opening Prayer

• Introduction

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FIRST STATION

• Jesus is condemned to death

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• Pilate said to them, Then what should I do with
  Jesus who is called the Messiah? All of them
  said, Let him be crucified! Then he asked,
  Why, what evil has he done? But they shouted
  all the more, Let him be crucified! So he
  released Barabbas for them and after flogging
  Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
• Matthew 2722-23,26

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SECOND STATION

• Jesus takes up His Cross

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• Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus
  into the governors headquarters, and they
  gathered the whole cohort around him. They
  stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and
  after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put
  it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand
  and knelt before him and mocked him, saying,
  Hail, King of the Jews! They spat on him, and
  took the reed and struck him on the head.  After
  mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and
  put his own clothes on him. Then they led him
  away to crucify him.
• Matthew. 2727-31

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THIRD STATION

• Jesus falls for the first time

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• Surely he has born our griefs and carried our
  sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by
  God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
  transgressions, he was bruised for our
  iniquities upon him was the chastisement that
  made us whole, and with his stripes we are
  healed. All we like sheep have gone astray we
  have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord
  has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Isaiah. 534-6

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FOURTH STATION

• Jesus meets His Mother

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• Simon blessed them and said to Mary his mother
  Behold, this child is set for the fall and
  rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is
  spoken against (and a sword will pierce through
  your own soul also), that thoughts out of many
  hearts may be revealed. And his mother kept all
  these things in her heart.
• Luke. 234-35,51

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FIFTH STATION

• The Cyrenian helps Jesus to carry the Cross

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• As they went out, they came upon a man of
  Cyrene, Simon by name this man they compelled to
  carry his cross.
• Jesus told his disciples, If any man would come
  after me, let him deny himself and take up his
  cross and follow me.
• Matthew. 2732 1624

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SIXTH STATION

• Veronica wipes the face of Jesus

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• He had no form or comeliness that we should look
  at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
  He was despised and rejected by men a man of
  sorrows, and acquainted with grief and as one
  from whom men hide their faces he was despised,
  and we esteemed him not.
• Isaiah. 532-3

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SEVENTH STATION

• Jesus falls for the second time

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• You are righteous, O Lord, when I complain to
  you.Yet I would plead my case before you.Why
  does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all
  who are treacherous thrive?
• Jeremiah 121

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EIGHTH STATION

• Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem who weep for
  him

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• A great number of people followed him, and among
  them were women who were beating their breasts
  and wailing for him. But Jesus turned to them
  and said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep
  for me, but weep for yourselves and for your
  children. For behold, the days are coming when
  they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the
  wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never
  nursed! For if they do this when the wood is
  green, what will happen when it is dry?
• Luke. 2327-29,31

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NINTH STATION

• Jesus falls for the third time

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• Are you not from of old, O Lord, my God, my
  Holy One? Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
  and you cannot look on wrongdoing why do you
  look on the treacherous, and are silent when the
  wicked swallow those more righteous than they?
• Write the vision, make it plain on tablets, so
  that a runner may read it. For there is still a
  vision for the appointed time it speaks of the
  end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry,
  wait for it it will surely come, it will not
  delay.
• Habakkuk 112-13 22-3

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TENTH STATION

• Jesus is stripped of His garments

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• When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took
  his garments and made four parts, one for each
  soldier also his tunic.  But the tunic was
  without seam, woven from top to bottom so they
  said to one another Let us not tear it, but
  cast lots for it to see whose it shall be. This
  was to fulfil the Scripture
  They parted my garments among them, and for my
  clothing they cast lots.
• John. 1923-24

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ELEVENTH STATION

• Jesus is nailed to the Cross

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• And over his head they put the charge against
  him, which read, This is Jesus the King of the
  Jews. Then two robbers were crucified with him,
  one on the right hand and one on the left. And
  those who passed by derided him, wagging their
  heads and saying, You who would destroy the
  temple and build it in three days, save yourself!
  If you are the Son of God, come down from the
  Cross. So also the chief priests with the
  scribes and elders mocked him, saying, He saved
  others he cannot save himself. He is the King of
  Israel let him come down now from the Cross and
  we will believe in him.
• Matthew 2737-42

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TWELFTH STATION

• Jesus dies on the Cross

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• Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the
  Cross it read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of
  the Jews. Many of the Jews read this title, for
  the place where Jesus was crucified was near the
  city and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and
  in Greek.
• John 1919-20

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• Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over
  all the land until the ninth hour. And about the
  ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,
• Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God,
  my God, why have you forsaken me? And some of
  the bystanders hearing it said, This man is
  calling Elijah. And one of them at once ran and
  took a sponge, filled it with vinegar, and put it
  on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. But the
  others said, Wait, let us see whether Elijah
  will come to save him. And Jesus cried again
  with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
  When the centurion and those who were with him,
  keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and
  what took place, they were filled with awe, and
  said, Truly this was the Son of God!
• Matthew 2745-50,54

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THIRTEENTH STATION

• Jesus is taken down from the cross and given to
  his Mother

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• There were also many women there, looking on
  from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee,
  ministering to him. When it was evening, there
  came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who
  also was a disciple of Jesus.  He went to Pilate
  and asked for the body of Jesus.  Then Pilate
  ordered it to be given to him. As they were
  gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them The
  Son of man is to be delivered  into the hands of
  men, and they will kill him, and he will be
  raised on the third day. And they were greatly
  distressed.
• Matthew 2755, 57-58 1722-2

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FOURTEENTH STATION

• Jesus is laid in the Tomb

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• Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean
  linen shroud, and laid it in his own new tomb,
  which he had hewn in the rock and he rolled a
  great stone to the door of the tomb, and
  departed. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were
  there, sitting opposite the sepulchre.
• Matthew 2759-61

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• My heart is glad,and my soul rejoicesmy body
  also rests secure.For you will not leave my soul
  among the dead,nor let your beloved know
  decay.You show me the path of lifein your
  presence there is fullness of joy,in your right
  hand are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 169-11

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Blessing

• V. The Lord be with you
• R. And also with you.
• V. Let us bless the name of the Lord.
• R. Both now and forever
• V. Our help is in the name of the Lord
• Who made heaven and earth.

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• May the Divine assistance remain always with us.
• And may the souls of the faithful departed
  through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
• May almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son,
  and the Holy Spirit.
• R. Amen.

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• Please keep the
• silence until
• you leave the
• Church