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Thou, thy Son's rebuke who sharest,

Let me share them both with thee!

TWELFTH STATION.

JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS.

V. We adore Thee, O Christ, etc.

R. Because by Thy holy Cross, etc.

Consider how thy Jesus, after three hours' Agony on the Cross, consumed at length with anguish, abandons Himself to the weight of His body, bows His head and dies.

O MY dying Jesus, I kiss devoutly the Cross on which Thou didst die for 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