 The Steps of the Passion by St. Alphonsus Liguori  |
| My sweetest Jesus, Who, while
praying in the garden, didst sweat Blood, wast in agony, and didst
suffer a sorrow so great as to suffice to cause Thee death, have mercy
on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, Who wast betrayed by Judas with a kiss, and delivered over into the hands of Thine enemies, and then wast taken prisoner by them and bound, and abandoned by Thy disciples, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, declared by the council of the Jews guilty of death, and in the house of Caiphas blindfolded with a piece of cloth, and then buffeted, spit at, and derided, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, led away as a malefactor to Pilate, and then turned by Herod into ridicule, and treated as a madman, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, stripped of Thy garments, and bound to the pillar, and so cruelly scourged, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, crowned with thorns, covered with a red mantle, buffeted, and in mockery saluted as King of the Jews, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, rejected by the Jews, and placed after Barabbas, and then unjustly condemned by Pilate to die upon a Cross, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, laden with the wood of the Cross, and as an innocent Lamb led away unto death, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, nailed upon the Cross, placed between two thieves, ridiculed and blasphemed, and for three hours in an agony of the most horrible torments, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, dead upon the Cross, and in sight of Thy holy Mother, transfixed in Thy side with the spear, from whence there issued forth Blood and water, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, taken down from the Cross, and placed in the bosom of Thine afflicted Mother, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. My sweetest Jesus, Who, torn with stripes and stamped with Thy five wounds, wast laid in the sepulchre, have mercy on us. R. Mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. V. Surely He hath borne our infirmities. R. And He hath carried our sorrows. Let us pray. O God, Who, for the redemption of the world, didst will to be born, to be circumcised, rejected by the Jews, betrayed by the traitor Judas with a kiss, bound with cords, led as an innocent Lamb to the sacrifice, and with so many insults taken before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod, accused by false witnesses, beaten with scourges and buffetings, overwhelmed with ignominies, spit upon, crowned with thorns, smitten with the reed, blindfolded, stripped of Thy raiment, fastened with nails to the Cross lifted up on the Cross, numbered amongst thieves, with gall and vinegar given Thee to drink, and wounded with the spear,----do Thou, Lord, by these sacred pains, which I, unworthy, venerate, and by Thy holy Cross and death, deliver me from Hell, and vouchsafe to conduct me whither Thou didst conduct the thief that was crucified with Thee: Thou, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. So do I hope; and so may it be. |
