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Litany of the Passion Lord, have mercy on us!
Christ, have mercy on us! Lord, have mercy on us! Jesus, hear us!
Jesus, graciously hear us.
0 God the Father of Heaven,
have mercy on us!
0 God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
0 God the Holy Ghost,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Jesus, Son of the living God,
have mercy on us!
By Thy most holy life and conversation,
By Thy most bitter Passion and Death,
By Thy sorrow and Thy agony in the garden
By Thy thrice-repeated prayer,
By Thy resignation of Thy human will,
By Thy sweat of blood,
By Thy harsh captivity,
By Thy bonds and stripes,
By Thy sacred Body buffeted and smitten,
By Thy mockings and ignominy,
By the spitting upon Thy adorable Face,
By the false judgment pronounced on Thee
by Caiphas,
By Thy setting at naught by Herod,
By the shameful stripping off of Thy garments,
By Thy cruel scourging,
By Thy painful crown of thorns,
By Thy purple robe,
By Thy most unjust condemnation,
By Thy bearing Thy own cross,
By Thy footprints traced in blood,
By the wound in Thy sacred shoulder,
By the tearing off of Thy garments,
By the cruel stretching of all Thy sacred
limbs,
By Thy dread crucifixion,
By the raising of Thy cross,
By the taunts and blasphemies of Thy enemies,
By Thy seven words and Thy thirst,
By the compassion of Thy Mother,
By the woe of all Thy friends,
By the anguish of Thy Heart and of Thy Body,
By Thy tears and prayers,
By the shedding of' Thy most precious Blood,
By Thy patience and humility,
By the love of Thy sweetest Heart,
By the love wherewith Thou didst pray for
sinners,
By the love wherewith Thou didst endure
all Thy torments and sorrows,
By the love wherewith Thou didst will to
die a cruel death,
By the love wherewith Thou didst will Thy
sacred Side opened with the lance,
By the love wherewith Thou didst will to be laid in the sepulchre,
By the most acceptable sacrifice which Thou
didst offer to Thy Father in Thy Passion,
By the intercession of Thy dearest Mother
and of all Thy elect,
By Thy infinite dignity and worth,
Lamb of God,
Jesus, hear us!
Jesus, graciously hear us!
V. 0 Saviour of the world, save us. Who, by
Thy cross and Blood, hast redeemed us, R. grant
as Thy aid, we beseech Thee, 0 our God!
V. We adore Thee, 0 Christ, and we bless
Thee,
R. Because by Thy cross Thou hast redeemed
the world. Let us pray
0 Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God
Who didst at the sixth hour go up on the cross
for the redemption of the world, and shed Thy
Blood for the remission of our sins; we humbly
beseech Thee that, by the virtue and merits of
Thy most holy Life, Passion, and Death. Thou
wouldst grant us to enter into the gates of paradise with joy: Who livest,
etc. The Pieta
CASWALL
Jesus! as though Thyself wert here,
I draw in trembling sorrow near,
And hanging o'er Thy Form Divine,
Kneel down to kiss these wounds of Thine.
Ah me, how naked art Thou laid!
Bloodstained, distended, cold and dead!
Joy of my soul—my Saviour sweet,
Upon this Sacred winding sheet!
Hail, awful Brow! hail, thorny wreath!
Hail, Countenance now pale in death!
Whose glance but late so brightly blazed
That Angels trembled as they gazed.
And hail to Thee, my Saviour's Side;
And hail to Thee, Thou Wound so wide;
Thou Wound more ruddy than the rose,
True antidote of all our woes.
Oh! by those Sacred Hands and Feet
For me so mangled! I entreat:
My Jesus, turn me not away,
But let me here forever stay. |
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