PRAYERS IN HONOR OF THE PASSION
O my Lord Jesus, in honor of Thy Passion and death, I offer the following prayers:
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. And give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
PRAYERS FOR THE INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER
O, my Lord Jesus, I offer the following prayers as my petition for this month's intentions of our Holy Father, the Pope:
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. And give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
CLOSING PRAYER TO JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED
Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus, I cast myself on my knees in Thy sight, and with the most fervent desire of my soul, I pray and beg Thee to impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope, and charity, with true repentance for my sins, and a firm desire of amendment, while with deep affection and grief of soul I contemplate Thy five most precious Wounds, having before my eyes that which David spoke in prophecy: "They pierced My hands and My feet; they have numbered all My bones." God has loved us from all eternity. So He says: "Remember I first loved you. You had not come to be, nor did the world yet exist, but I loved you already. From all eternity I have loved you."
Footnote: 1 A novel variation you might see (and should ignore) in the enumeration of the Stations adds a 15th station -- Christ's Resurrection. The reason this should be ignored is because a) it changes the very purpose of the Lenten "Way of the Cross" devotion, which is to focus on His Passion, b) it is not traditional, and c) it is an appeasement to Protestants and to those who support the "Paschal Mystery Theology" that has destroyed the liturgy. Yet another variation you might see (and should ignore), another designed to appease Protestants because it lacks the stations not explicitly enumerated in Scripture, lists the following 14 stations: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemani |