Station XIII — Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross

V). Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi.

R). Quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

Consider how, after our Lord had breathed his last, two of his disciples, Joseph and Nicodemus, took him down from the cross and placed him in the arms of his afflicted Mother, who received him with tenderness and pressed him to her heart. — O sorrowful Mother, for the love of this Son, accept me as your servant and pray for me. And you, my Redeemer, since you have died for me, accept me to love you, for you alone do I desire and nothing more. I love you, my Jesus, and I repent of having offended you; do not permit me to offend you again. Grant that I may always love you, and then do with me as you will.

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.

Dear Jesus, already dead you are for love of me; I wish to die as well, I wish to die with you.