share in thy most holy sorrow for the sufferings of thy Son, and have compassion on our infirmities. Accept us as thy children with the beloved disciple. Show thyself a Mother to us; and may he, through thee, receive our prayer, who for us vouchsafed to be thy Son.
Pater. Ave. Gloria.
Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.
STATION XIV.
JESUS LAID IN THE HOLY SEPULCHRE.
V. Adoramus te, &c.
R. Quia per sanctam, &c.
The body of her dearly-beloved Son is taken from his Mother, and laid by the disciples in the tomb. The tomb is closed, and in it the lifeless body remains until the hour of its glorious resurrection.
We too, O God, are ready to go down into the grave whenever it shall please thee, in whatsoever manner it shall please thee, and wheresoever it shall please thee. Let thy just decrees be fulfilled; let our sinful bodies return to the dust from which they came; but do thou, in thy great mercy, receive our immortal souls, and when our bodies shall have risen again, place them likewise in thy kingdom, that we may love and bless thee for ever and ever. Amen.
Pater. Ave. Gloria.
Miserere nostri, &c.
Or the following instead of the Sancta Mater:
From pain to pain, from woe to woe,
With loving hearts and footsteps slow,
To Calvary with Christ we go.
See how his precious blood at every station pours.
Was ever grief like his? was ever sin like ours?
Or else successive verses of Stabat Mater, p. 443. Music for all these in "Hymns and Melodies," Nos. 230, 236, 158.
