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Among the devotional exercises which have for their object meditation on the Passion, Crucifixion, and Death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, one of the chief has been the exercise commonly called the Way of the Cross. This devotion arose first in Jerusalem, among the Christians who dwelt there, out of veneration for those sacred places which were sanctified by the sufferings of our divine Redeemer. From that time, as we learn from St. Jerome, Christians visited the holy places in crowds. The gathering of the faithful, he says, even from the farthest corners of the earth, to visit the holy places, continued to his own times. From Jerusalem this devout exercise began to be introduced into Europe by various pious and holy persons, who had traveled to the Holy Land to satisfy their devotion. Pope Clement XII extended this devotion to the whole Catholic world.
PREPARATORY PRAYER†
My Lord Jesus Christ, Thou hast made this journey to die for me with love unutterable, and I have so many times unworthily abandoned Thee. But now I love Thee with my whole heart, and because I love Thee, I repent sincerely for having offended Thee.
Pardon me, my God, and permit me to accompany Thee in this journey. Thou goest to die for love of me; I wish also, my beloved Redeemer, to die for love of Thee. My Jesus, I will live and die always united to Thee.
Stabat Mater dolorósa,
juxta crucem lacrymósa,
dum pendébat Fílius.
The sorrowful Mother stood
weeping beside the cross,
while her Son hung thereon.
FINAL PRAYER††
O God, Who by the Passion of Thy Christ, our Lord, hast undone the bonds of death, the inheritance of man’s first sin, into which his whole race has entered, grant that made like Him, we who of necessity have borne the likeness of earthly nature, may by His sanctifying power put on the likeness of His divine grace. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
† St. Alphonsus Liguori.
†† First Prayer of the Solemn Afternoon Liturgy on Good Friday.
SOURCE: Roman Catholic Daily Missal (1962) 2004, Angelus Press, Saint Marys, Kansas, pp. 34-51.
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