Pater. Ave. Gloria.

Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.

STATION XII.

JESUS IS RAISED ON THE CROSS, AND DIES UPON IT. . Adoramus te, &c.

1. Quia per sanctam, &c.

For three hours Jesus has hung upon his transfixed hands; his blood has run in streams down his body, and bedewed the ground; and, in the midst of excruciating sufferings, he has pardoned his murderers, promised the bliss of Paradise to the good thief, and committed his blessed Mother and beloved disciple to each other's care. All is now consummated; and meekly bowing down his head, he gives up the ghost.

O Jesus, we devoutly embrace that honoured cross whereon thou didst love us even unto death. In that death we place all our confidence. Henceforth let us live only for thee; and in dying for thee, let us die loving thee and in thy sacred arms.

Pater. Ave. Gloria.

Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.

STATION XIII.

JESUS TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS.

y. Adoramus te, &c.

R. Quia per sanctam, &c.

The multitudes have left the heights of Calvary, and none remain save the beloved disciple and the holy women, who, at the foot of the cross, are striving to bring consolation to Christ's inconsolable Mother. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take down the body of her divine Son from the cross, and deposit it in her arms.

O thou, whose grief was boundless as an unfathomable ocean, Mary, Mother of God, grant us

share in thy most holy sorrow for the sufferings of thy Son, and have compassion on our infirmities. Accept us as thy children with the beloved disciple. Show thyself a Mother to us; and may he, through thee, receive our prayer, who for us vouchsafed to be thy Son.

Pater. Ave. Gloria.

Miserere nostri, &c. Sancta Mater, &c.

STATION XIV.

JESUS LAID IN THE HOLY SEPULCHRE.

y. Adoramus te, &c.

Ry. Quia per sanctam, &c.

The body of her dearly-beloved Son is taken from his Mother, and laid by the disciples in the tomb. The tomb is closed, and in it the lifeless body remains until the hour of its glorious resurrection.

We too, O God, are ready to go down into the grave whenever it shall please thee, in whatsoever manner it shall please thee, and wheresoever it shall please thee. Let thy just decrees be fulfilled; let our sinful bodies return to the dust from which they came; but do thou, in thy great mercy, receive our immortal souls, and when our bodies shall have risen again, place them likewise in thy kingdom, that we may love and bless thee for ever and ever. Amen.

Pater. Ave. Gloria.

Miserere nostri, &c.

Or the following instead of the Sancta Mater:
From pain to pain, from woe to woe,
With loving hearts and footsteps slow,
To Calvary with Christ we go.

See how his precious blood at every station pours.
Was ever grief like his? was ever sin like curs?

Or else successive verses of the Stabat Mater, p. 443. Music for all these in "Hymns and Melodies," Nos. 230, 236, 158.

GENERAL INDEX.

N.B. Where the words "No." or " Nos." occur, the reference is to the
ENGLISH HYMNS, which are numbered, not paged.

ABSTINENCE, Days of, 4.

Act of Adoration, 19, 219, 284.

Contrition, 19, 27, 33, 42, 52, 174, 226.

Intercession, 34.

Petition, 238.

Thanksgiving, 43, 214, 217,

Desire, 213.

Humility, 214.

before and after Communion, 211, 217, 225, 235.

Love of God, 243.

Spiritual Communion, 271,

Offering to St. Joseph, 503.

Reverence to the B.V.M., 540.

Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 555.
Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 556, 558.
Reparation to the B.V.M., 547.

Consecration to the B.V.M., 548.

Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Mary, 598

Acts of Faith, Hope, and Charity, 85.

Adoro te devote, Lat. and Eng., 441.

Advent, Hymns for, 652.

Hymns for Feast of, 637.
Vespers for, 401.

Alma Redemptoris, Lat. and Eng., 413.

Aloysius, St., Litany of, 355.

Hymn to, No. 266.

Prayer to, 584.

Prayer of, to the B.V.M., 38.

Alphonsus Liguori, Litany of, 371.

Ascension, Vespers for, 401; Hymns for, 521.

Aspirations to Jesus, 266.

for Communion, 223, 228.

before and after Confession, 175.

Assumption, Novena of, 602.

Athanasian Creed, 424.

August, Devotions for, 596.

Augustine, St., Apostle of England, Hymn to, No. 147.

Autumn Quarter, Litany for, 386.

Ave Maria, Lat. and Eng., 54.

Ave Maris Stella, Lat. and Eng., 443.

Ave Regina, Lat. and Eng., 411.

Prayers for, 271.

Benedictus, Lat. and Eng., 422.

Bernard, St., Hymn of, Nos. 57, 251.

Blessed Sacrament. See "Sacrament."

Blessed Virgin, Prayers to, 544.

Blessing, Last, and Indulgence to the Dying, 732

Blood, the Precious. See "Precious."

Bona Mors, Devotion of the, 665.

Bonaventure, St., Prayer of, 233.

Bridget, St., Prayers of, 483.

Burial-ground, Prayer in, 66.

CANON of the Mass, Lat. and Eng., 106.

Canticles: Te Deum, 419.

Carmel, Mount, Confraternity of our Lady of, 550.

Cecilia, St., Hymn to, No. 276.

Chaplet for the Souls in Purgatory, 741.