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Traditional
devotions, prayers by Msgr. Romano Guardini, and Father Mike
Clay, and scriptural references which are linked to the scriptual
text.
Click arrow to continue playing the music to the
Sabat Mater.
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Introductory Prayer and Act of Contrition
LORD, Thou hast said: "Whosoever will be my disciple, let him take up
his cross daily and follow Me." I desire to tread in Thy footsteps, and in
spirit follow Thee along Thy way of sorrows. Grant that all Thou hast
suffered for my sake may become living and present before my soul. Open
mine eyes, touch my heart that I may see and deeply perceive how great is
Thy love for me; that with my whole soul I may turn to Thee, my Redeemer,
and forsake the sin which brought Thee such bitter pain.
Of all my sins I repent from my heart, 0 Lord. I will begin again; with
all earnestness will set out to follow Thee. Help me to do this.
Help me also to carry my cross with Thee. Thy way of pain is the school
of all suffering, of all patience and overcoming. Let me recognize in it
my own misery. Teach me to understand its message, what I ought to do--I
myself--and to do in this very hour. And then let this insight become
strong and fruitful that I may also carry it out into action.
Begin your virtual walk with
Jesus through the Stations. 
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STATIONS |
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES |
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1.Jesus is Condemned |
Matthew 27:11-31,
Mark 15:2-15, |
Luke 23:2-25,
John 18:33-40
John 19:1-16 |
2. Jesus Receives His Cross
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Matthew 27:31, |
John 18:33-19:17 |
3. Jesus Falls the First Time
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4. Jesus Meets His Mother
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John 19:25-27 |
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5. Simeon of Cyrene Helps Jesus
Carry His Cross |
Matthew27:32,
Mark 15:21, |
Luke 23:26 |
6. Veronica Wipes the Face of
Jesus
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7. Jesus Falls for the Second
Time
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8. Jesus Meets the Women of
Jerusalem
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Matthew27:55,
Mark 15:40, |
Luke 23:27 |
9. Jesus Falls for the Third Time
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10. Jesus is Stripped of His
Garments
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John 19:23-25 |
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11. Jesus is Nailed to The Cross |
Matthew 27:35,
Mark 15:24,
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Luke23:33,
John
19:18 |
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12. Jesus Dies on The Cross |
Matthew 27:50,
Mark 15:37, |
Luke 23:46,
John
19:30 |
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13. Jesus is Taken Down From The
Cross |
Matthew27:59,
Mark 15:46, |
Luke 23:50-53,
John
19:31-38 |
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14. Jesus is Laid in The Tomb |
Matthew 27:59-60,
Mark 15:47, |
Luke 23:53-56,
John 19:38 |
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BACKGROUND
INFORMATION: by Msgr. Romano Guardini
"....This, then, was the origin of the Way of
the Cross, as we know it today: one of the truest and purest
of popular devotions: uniting picture and thought, outward action
and inward disposition, historical truth and creative action
of the believing imagination. More than any other devotion it
is fitted for approaching Our Lord's suffering in the manner,
reverential and at the same time familiar, unconstrained and
yet not without its proper form, which is characteristic of
the people.
Witness, especially, those stations whose subjects are
not directly taken from Holy Scripture, as, for example, Our
Lords' falling beneath the cross. Here the popular mind has
been freely at work, and it has found the right thing. For is
it not the leading idea of the whole: that again and again Our
Lord sinks down under a cross too heavy for Him, and in the
strength of His Love rises again and again? And to the contemplative
understanding the meeting of Our Lord with Veronica reveals
itself as a miracle of religious tenderness.
The praying soul never fails to find something new in
the Way of the Cross. Now this station speaks the more persuasively,
now that. Many a picture remains dumb for a long time. Awakened
by some spiritual experience it suddenly begins to speak to
the soul. Others with their radiant secret accompany it unaltered
through the course of many years. And, more especially, anyone
who accustoms himself to take his personal experiences, worrying
questions and perplexities with him into the Way of the Cross,
often receives undreamt of light and unhoped for consolation.
Two things, above all, this devotion has to say to us.
First, it teaches us to feel with our very hearts what Our Lord
suffered. We walk with Him and bear the load with Him. Thus
it is revealed to us how great is the Redeemer's love and how
great our guilt. We learn to repent and to pray for the grace
of a deep inward turning to God.
Then secondly: the Way of the Cross is the school where
we are taught how to overcome. We see how Our Lord goes through
most bitter suffering of soul and body, but also how through
His love for God and for us He overcomes. And we learn to bring
something similar to pass in regard to our own lot.
In the devotion of the Way of the Cross as set forth in
this little book, it is the second point of view which especially
predominates. The former is not forgotten; but the Way of the
Cross is meant to reveal itself as above all a school of victory
over suffering. In this way the author might well hope in these
hard times of ours to render service to many a soul, to help
the worshipper to recognise in the several stations passages
of his own life, and to see his daily troubles in union with
those of Our Lord, and, thus gather insight and strength not
only to bear his suffering, but also to conquer it..."
The
Complete SABAT MATER.
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