Suffering With Joy

Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross

March 21, 2010

The Crucifixion: `Behold Thy Mother', c. 1805, William Blake 1757-1827, Tate Collection, London

Jesus Dies on the Cross

V.  We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee.

R.  Because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

When Jesus therefore had seen His mother and the disciple whom He loved, He said to His mother: Woman, behold thy son.  After that He saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother.  And Jesus, when He had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated.  And again, crying with a loud voice, He said: Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.  And bowing His head, He gave up the ghost.¹

V.  Christ for our sake became obedient unto death.

R.  Even the death of the cross.²

Let Us Pray

O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, / who at the sixth hour didst mount the gibbet of the cross for the redemption of the world, / and didst shed Thy precious blood for the remission of our sins: / grant us, we humbly beseech Thee, / that after our death we may enter with joy the gates of paradise. / Who livest and reignest forever and ever.  Amen.³

Hymn: Let his stripes and scourging smite me.  At His holy cross requite me, let His blood refresh me there.

¹ Jn. 19: 26, 27, and 30 and Lk. 23: 46 (Fifth Responsory of Tenebrae of Good Friday). ² Versicle of Good Friday (Philip. 2:8). ³ Postcommunion, Votive Mass of the Passion of Our Lord.

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We study William Blake’s poetry in English literature, but how many of us know that he was an accomplished artist as well?  It was a happy find to discover his religious art.  I found this image at Biblical Art on the WWW.

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