PRAYER.
O MARY, I am the cause of thy sufferings: O refuge of sinners, let me share in those bitter pangs which rent thy tender soul when thou didst behold thy Son, covered with wounds and fainting under the cross. Mother of sorrows, let me feel the force of thy grief, that, together with thee, I may mingle my tears with the blood of thy Son. O suffering Jesus ! by thy bitter passion, and the deep anguish of thy afflicted Mother, grant me the grace of perseverance. Mother of Jesus, intercede for me ! Jesus, look down on me with an eye of pity; and, in the hour of my death, receive me into thy arms.
Our Father, etc. Hail Mary, etc. Glory be to the Father, etc.
V. Jesus Christ crucified, have mercy on us.
R. Have mercy on us; O Lord, have mercy on us.
V. And may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R. Amen.
Quis est homo qui non fleret,
matrem Christi si vidéret
in tanto supplício?
FIFTH STATION.
Jesus assisted by Simon the Cyrenean in carrying the Cross.
V. We adore thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, and bless thy holy name:
R. Because, by thy holy cross, thou hast redeemed the world.
THE MYSTERY.
THIS station represents Christ fainting, unable to carry the cross. His sacrilegious executioners compel Simon the Cyrenean to carry it, not through
