Pater. Ave. Gloria.
Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.
STATION VIII.
JESUS CONSOLES THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM.
V. Adoramus te, &c.
R. Quia per sanctam, &c.
At the sight of the sufferings of Jesus, some holy women in the crowd were so touched with sympathy, that they openly bewailed and lamented him. Jesus, knowing the things that would befall Jerusalem because of its rejection of him, turned to them, and said, " Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children ."
O Lord Jesus, we mourn, and will mourn, both for thee and for ourselves; for thy sufferings, and for our sins which caused them. 0, teach us so to mourn, that we may be comforted, and may escape those dreadful judgments which are prepared for all who shall reject or neglect thee in this life.
Pater. Ave. Gloria.
Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.
STATION IX
JESUS FALLS BENEATH HIS CROSS THE THIRD TIME.
V. Adoramus te, &c.
R. Quia per sanctam, &c.
Jesus had now arrived almost at the summit of Calvary; but before he reached the spot where he was to be crucified, his strength again fails him, and he falls the third time, to be again dragged up and goaded onward by the brutal soldiery.
O Lord Jesus, we entreat thee, by the merits of this thy third most painful fall, to pardon our frequent relapses and our long continuance in sin; and may the thought of these thy sufferings make us hate our sins more and more.
