fall away, but rather let me die than ever mortally sin again. STATION X.: JESUS STRIPPED AND DRENCHED WITH GALL. MY JESUS, Who wast stripped of Thy clothes, and drenched with gall, strip me of love for things of earth, and make me loathe all that savors of the world and sin. STATION XI.: JESUS NAILED TO THE CROSS. MY JESUS, by those agonizing pains Thou didst endure when the hard nails pierced Thy tender hands and feet and fixed them to the cross, oh, make me ever crucify my flesh with the spirit of true Christian penance. STATION XII.: JESUS DIES UPON THE CROSS. MY JESUS, three hours didst Thou hang in agony upon the cross, and then didst die for me: let me die before I sin again; and if I live, may I live to love Thee and to serve Thee faith fully. STATION XIII.: JESUS TAKEN FROM THE CROSS AND LAID IN MARY'S BOSOM. MARY, Mother most sorrowful, the sword of grief went through thy soul when thou didst see thy dear Son Jesus lying lifeless in thy bosom: ask for me hatred of sin, which was the cause of His death, and made thee suffer so much; and then obtain for me grace to live a true Christian life, and save my soul. STATION XIV.: JESUS LAID IN THE TOMB. MY JESUS, beside Thee in the tomb I desire that I may ever remain as one dead; and if I live, I wish to live only to Thee; that so one day I may come with Thee to taste of the bliss of heaven, the fruit of Thy Passion and most painful death. Amen. Let us Pray. Gon, Who by the precious blood of Thy onlybegotten Son, didst sanctify the standard of the cross; grant, we beseech Thee, that all those who rejoice in the glory of the same holy cross may at all times and places feel the gladness of Thy protection. Through the same Christ Our Lord. R. Amen. End with one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory be to the Father, for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff. INDULGENCED CROSS. THOSE who are legitimately hindered from visiting the stations may gain all the indulgences of the Way of the Cross (if they have a cross with prominent figure of Our Lord attached to it, made of brass or any other solid material, and blessed for this purpose), by reciting twenty Our Fathers, Hail Marys, and Glorys, one for each station, five in honor of the five sacred wounds, and one for the intention of the Pope. The sick, who are unable to say these prayers, can gain the same indulgences by reciting an act of contrition, or the versicle 'We therefore beseech Thee, help Thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious blood," and joining at least mentally in the recitation of three Our Fathers, Hail Marys, and Glory be, etc., said by one of those present. Litany of the Passion. (For Private Devotion Only.) LORD, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of heaven, God the Son, Redeemer of the world, God the Holy Ghost, Holy Trinity, one God, Jesus, the eternal wisdom, Jesus, conversing with men, Jesus, hated by the world, Jesus, sold for thirty pieces of silver, Jesus, prostrate on the ground in prayer, Jesus, in Thine agony bathed in a bloody Jesus, betrayed by Judas with a kiss, Jesus, bound by the soldiers, Jesus, forsaken by Thy disciples, Jesus, brought before Annas and Caiphas, Jesus, struck by a servant on the face, Jesus, blindfolded, Jesus, smitten on the cheek, Jesus, spit upon, Jesus, thrice denied by Peter, Jesus, delivered up to Pilate, Jesus, despised and mocked by Herod, Jesus, rejected for Barabbas, Jesus, torn with scourges, Jesus, bruised for our sins, Jesus, esteemed as a leper, Jesus, covered with a purple robe, Jesus, crowned with thorns, Jesus, struck with a reed upon the head, Jesus, condemned to an ignominous death, Jesus, loaded with the heavy weight of the cross, Jesus, led like a sheep to the slaughter, Jesus, stripped of Thy garments, Jesus, fastened with nails to the cross, Jesus, praying to Thy Father for Thy mur- |