The Sixth Station

The Sixth Station

 
Jesus Takes Up His Cross
 
We adore you, O Christ and we praise you.
Because by your holy cross, you have redeemed the world.
 
Reading
And Pilate said to the Jews, “Behold your king!” But they cried out, “Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. And so they took Jesus and led him away, bearing the cross himself.
 
Response
Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; there was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, no appearance that would attract us to him. He was rejected and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men turn away, and we held him in no esteem. 
 
Prayer
Father in heaven, 
your Son Jesus Christ still carries his cross 
in our persecuted brothers and sisters throughout the world. 
Make us feel the needs of all 
so that we might as readily help them 
as we would help Jesus himself. 
Amen.
 
Christ she saw for our salvation,
Scourged with cruel acclamation,
Bruised and beaten by the rod. 

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