salvation. These barbarians fastened him with nails, and then, securing the Cross, allowed him to die with anguish on the tree of scorn.
My Jesus, laden with contempt, nail my heart to thy feet, that it may ever remain there to love thee, and never quit thee again. I love thee more than myself. I repent, etc.
Pater , Ave, Gloria.
STATION XII.
Jesus dies on the Cross.
V. We adore thee, etc.
CONSIDER how Jesus, after three hours’ agony on the Cross, consumed with anguish, abandoned himself to the weight of his body, bowed his sacred head, and died.
O my dying Jesus, I kiss devoutly the Cross on which thou didst die for the love of me. I have merited by my sins to die a miserable death, but thy death is my hope. Ah! by the merits of thy death, give me grace to die embracing thy feet, and burning with love for thee. I commit my soul to thy hands. I love thee, O Jesus, above all things. I repent, etc.
Pater , Ave , Gloria.
STATION XIII.
Jesus is taken down from the Cross.
V. We adore thee, etc.
CONSIDER how our Lord, having expired, two of his disciples, Joseph and Nicodemus, took him down from the Cross, and placed him in the arms of his afflicted Mother, who received him with ineffable tenderness, and pressed him to her bosom.
O Mother of sorrows, for the love of this son, accept me for thy servant, and pray for me. And thou, my Redeemer, since thou hast died for me, permit
