Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Stations of the Cross 2021

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MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS PARISH STATIONS OF THE CROSS 2021

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Ohh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

OPENING PRAYER

(STAND) Pr.: ...let this cup pass away from me; yet not as I will but as you will.” (Mt 26:36-39)

All: (KNEEL) Almighty and eternal Father, accept our prayer of thanksgiving for your Beloved Son, our Saviour and Lord. As we recall hi Sacred Passion send the Spirit of Christ into our hearts, we beg You, so that whether we pray or work we might do all in union with Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

Sing: Jesus, Lord, condemned, defiled, May we too be meek and mild As we tread your holy Way.

May we feel no bitter hatred, When we too are persecuted, Left alone to walk with You. FIRST STATION SECOND STATION Jesus is condemned to death Jesus carries his Cross

Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. (GENUFLECT) (GENUFLECT) All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the the world. world. Pr: ….condemned him as liable to death. (Mark 14, Pr: ….And so they took Jesus and led him away, bearing 61-64) the cross for himself. (John 19:14-17) All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) The kings of the earth rise up All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) Who would believe what we have and princes conspire together against the Lord heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been and against his Anointed. I will proclaim the revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a decree of the Lord; the Lord said to me: “You shoot from the parched earth; there was in him no are my Son; this day I have begotten you. Ask of stately bearing to make us look at him, no appearance me and I will give you the nations for an in that would attract us to him. He was rejected and heritance and the ends of the earth for your avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to possession.” (Psalm 2:2, 7-8) infirmity, one of those from whom men turn away, and Pr.: ….You have told us and fear nothing more than we held him in no esteem. (Is 53:1-3) the loss of your friendship through sin. Pr.: ….help them as we would help Jesus himself. All: Amen. All: Amen. (STAND) (STAND) Sing: Now the Cross as Jesus bore it. Sing: Weakened, prodded, cursed, and fallen, Has become for us who share it, His whole Body bruised and swollen, The jeweled Cross of Victory. Jesus tripped and lay in pain. THIRD STATION FOURTH STATION Jesus falls the first time Jesus meets his afflicted mother Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. (GENUFLECT) (GENUFLECT) All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the the world. world. Pr: ….If they have persecuted me, they will Pr.: ….And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. persecute you also. (John 15:18-20) (John 19:25-27) All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) Why are your clothes red, and All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) to what can I compare you, O daughter your garments like those of the wine presser? Jerusalem? What example can I show you for your “The wine press I have trodden alone, and of my comfort, virgin daughter Sion? For great as the sea is your people there was no one with me. I trod them in distress; who can heal you? (Lam 2:13) my anger, and trampled them down in my wrath; Pr.: ….with compassion might receive the healing fruits of your their blood spurted on my garments and I stained sufferings. all my clothes. I looked about, but there was no All: Amen. one to help, I was appalled that there was no one to lend support; so my own arm brought about (STAND) the victory.” (Is 63:2-5) Sing: Simon stopped in hesitation, Pr: ….we must rise to a new life of joyful service Not foreseeing his proud station, free of all selfishness. Called to bear the Cross of Christ. All: Amen. (STAND) Sing: Jesus met his grieving Mother, She who make the Lord our Brother Now the sword her heart has pierced. FIFTH STATION SIXTH STATION

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry his Cross Veronica wipes the face of Jesus Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. (GENUFLECT) (GENUFLECT) All: Because by your holy Cross you have All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed t redeemed the world. he world. Pr: ….Golgotha, a name meaning ‘the place of the Pr: ….the least of my brethren, ou did it for me.: skull’. (Mk. 15:20-22) (Mt. 25:37-40) All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) With a loud voice I cry out All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) A faithful friend is sturdy shelter; to the Lord with a loud voice I beseech the Lord. he who finds one finds a treasure. A faithful friend My complaint I pour out before him; before him I lay is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth. A bare my distress. When my spirit is faint with in me, faithful friend is a life-saving remedy, such as he you know my path. In the way along which I walk who fears God finds; for he who fears God be they have hid a trap for me. I look to the right to haves accordingly, and his friend will be like him see, but there is no one who pays me heed. I have self. (Sirach 6:14-17) lost all means of escape; there is no one who cares for my life. (Ps 141:2-5) Pr: ….who have taken upon Yourself even our guilt. Pr: ….who have taken upon Yourself even our guilt. All: Amen. All: Amen. (STAND) (STAND) Sing: Prostrate on the dust He crumbled, Sing: Brave But trembling came the woman, Flogged in body He resembled None but she would flaunt the Roman, All our brothers poor and scorned. Moved by love beyond her fear.

SEVENTH STATION EIGHTH STATION Jesus falls the second time Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. Pr.: We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. (GENUFLECT) (GENUFLECT) All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the All: Because by your holy Cross you have redeemed world. the world. Pr: ….weep for yourselves and for your children.” Pr: ….the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all. (Is 53:4-6) (Luke 23:27-28) All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) Though he was harshly treated, he All: (KNEEL & PAUSE) Come, all you who pass by the way, submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to look and see whether there is any suffering like my the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was suffering, suffering with which the Lord has afflicted silent and uttered no cry. When he was cut off from the me on the day of his blazing wrath. At this I weep, my land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people, eyes run with tears: far from me are all who could con a grave was assigned him among the wicked and a sole me, far away are any who might revive me, burial place with evildoers, though he had done no (Lam 1:12,16) wrong nor spoken any falsehood. (Is 53:7,9) Pr: ….broken by our greed and our indifference. Pr: ….Your strength, dwelling in us, may be shown to all others. All: Amen. (STAND) All: Amen. Sing: Jesus fell again in weakness, (STAND) Stumbling as we do, to Lead us Sing: May our sympathy for Jesus Through our sorrow and our pain. Turn to those who here now need us, May we see Christ bruised in them.

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TENTH STATION STATION TENTH TWELFTH STATION TWELFTH STATION

Jesus dies on the the Cross dies on Jesus

We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. (GENUFLECT) ….strengthen me with your 118:25words. (Ps. (KNEEL & PAUSE) Happy man whom the is God We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. (GENUFLECT) Because by your holy you Cross have redeemed the Walked the hill of Calvary. of Calvary. hill the Walked Because by your holy you Cross redeemed have the world. chastises! Do not the reject punishment of the al mighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; but he smites, handshis give healing. Insult has broken my heart, and I I am weak; looked for comforters, and I found none. Rather they put gall in my food, and in they my thirst gave me tovinegar drink. (Job 5:17 ….may fill our heartswith hatred or bitterness. Amen. (STAND) us, cured and blessed that the hands, Pierced us, to free walked that the feet Pierced Our Father, Who art in heaven,hallowed be thy (STAND) Mother Mary, stricken, and Stunned Brother, our was placed our arms In grief. with filled now of grace” “Full (KNEEL & PAUSE) My people what have I done to you? Or in what have I offended you? Answer me. What more should I have done, and did not do? I led you out theof land of Egypt, and you a prepared cross for me. opened the Red Sea before you and you opened my side with a lance. you I gave a royal andscepter, you have agiven crownme of thorns. With great power I lifted you up, andyou have hung upon a me My cross. people, what Ihave done to your, or Iinhave offended what you? Answer me. Jesus is stripped of of clothes his is stripped Jesus

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ELEVENTH STATION ELEVENTH STATION Jesus falls time a third Jesus Jesus is nailed to the Cross is Cross nailedJesus to the Because byBecause your holy you Cross have redeemed the We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. “….for they do not know what they are doing." (KNEEL & PAUSE) My God, my God, why have your (GENUFLECT) We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. ….My soul weeps for sorrow; strengthen e with hour (KNEEL & PAUSE) Lord The is my light and my (GENUFLECT) Bowed his head Bowed anew. life came his death Through ….royal road to the cross to the resurrection. . the to resurrection. cross the to ….royal road Amen. (STAND) defiant, death Life eternal, answer not;answer I cry out by night, and no there is relief All for me. my bones are racked. My heart has be likecome wax melting away within my chest. My throat dried is up baked like clay, my tongue cleaves to my they jaws; have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all bones.my (PS 21:2 (Lk. 23:33 forsaken far fromme, my prayer, the far from words myof cry? O my God, I cry out by day, andyou world. Giving all He had to give. to give. He had all Giving ….our glorious resurrection in union with your Son. Amen. (STAND) Stripped and by jeered his own nation, desolation, in stood Jesus come at come themselvesenemies tumble and fall. Though an army encamp bewar waged upon even me, then I will trust. 26:1(Ps. words. (Ps. 118:25 salvation;whom should I fear? The Lord my life’s is refuge; Because by your holy you Cross redeemed have the world.

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FOURTEENTH STATION FOURTEENTH

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who lives andwho lives reigns with You in the unity Holy of the Spirit. Because byBecause your holy you Cross have redeemed the We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. (GENUFLECT) (KNEEL & PAUSE) praise I will you, O Lord, for you drew (STAND) risen,Jesus, be our lover In your Food andour brother. in Lead us home heaven to with You. world. ….a large againststone the entrance of the tomb and departed. (Mt. 27:59 clearme and did not rejoice my enemies let over me. O Lord, my God, I cried out to you and you healed O Lord,me. you brought up me the from world; lower you preserved me amongfrom those going down into the pit. toSing praise the Lord, you his faithful ones, and thanks give to his holy name. For angerhis lasts but a moment; good his is will for a life time. At rejoicing. (Ps. 29:2 ... Amen.

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THIRTEENTH STATION THIRTEENTH

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We adoreWe You, O Christ, and praise we You. (KNEEL & PAUSE) O my people, I open will your graves ….And Pilate gave permission. (Jn.19:33 (GENUFLECT)

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