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O Jesus, who didst expire on the cross, who, in presence of thy holy Mother, wast pierced with a lance, and from whose side poured forth blood and water : have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us,

O Jesus, who west taken down from the cross, and bathed in the tears of thy most sorrowing Virgin Mother: have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, who wast covered with bruises, marked with the five wounds, embalmed with spices, and laid in the sepulchre: have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

V. He truly hath borne our sorrows.

R. And he hath carried our griefs.

Let us pray.

O God, who for the redemption of the world didst deign to be born, to be circumcised, to be rejected by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas with a kiss, to be bound with fetters, and led like an innocent lamb to the slaughter, to be ignominiously brought before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod, to be accused by false witnesses, to be scourged, buffeted, and reviled, to be spit upon, to be crowned with thorns, And struck with a reed, to be blindfolded, to be stripped of thy garments, to be nailed to a cross and raised thereon, to be numbered among thieves, to be made to drink of gall and vinegar, and to be pierced with a lance: do then, O Lord, by these thy most holy sufferings, which I, thy unworthy servant commemorate, and by thy most holy cross and death, deliver me from the pains of hell, and vouchsafe to conduct me whither thou didst conduct the penitent thief who was crucified with thee. Who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.

O Lord Jesus Christ, I adore the sacred wound of thy left foot. I thank thee for the pain which thou didst endure