The Seventh Station

 
Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus to Carry his Cross
 
We adore you, O Christ and we praise you.
Because by your holy cross, you have redeemed the world.
 
Reading
And when they mocked Jesus, they took the purple cloak off and put his own clothes on him and they led him out to be crucified. Then they forced a certain passer-by Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, to carry his cross. 
 
Response
With a loud voice I cry out to the Lord; with a loud voice I beseech the Lord. My complaint I pour out before him; before him I lay bare my distress. When my spirit is faint within me, you know  my path. In the way along which I walk, they lay a trap for me. I look to the right to see, but there is no one who pays me heed. I have lost all means of escape; there is no one who cares for my life.
 
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, 
help us to see in the shortcomings of our lives 
a share in Your cross; 
strengthen and console us 
in the belief that we bear all things in union with You, 
who have taken upon yourself even our guilt.  
Amen.
 
Mary, fount of love’s devotion,
Let me share with true emotion,
All the sorrow you endured.  


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