Ninth Hour; Have Mercy on Us

Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who didst expire on the cross, Who wast pierced with a lance in presence of Thy holy Mother, and from Whose side poured forth blood and water; have mercy on us. Have mercy on us, 0 Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast taken down from the cross, and bathed in the tears of Thy most sorrowing Virgin Mother; have mercy on us. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, Who wast covered with bruises, marked with the five wounds, embalmed with spices, and laid in the sepulcher; have mercy on us. Have mercv on us, O Lord; have mercy on us* V. He hath truly borne our sorrows.

R. And He bath carried our griefs. Digitized by Miscellaneous Prayers Let us pray OGod, Who, for the redemption of the world, didst deign to be born, to be circumcised, to be rejected by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas with a kiss ; to be bound with fetters, and led like an innocent lamb to the slaughter; to be ignominiously brought before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod; to be accused by false witnesses, to be scourged, buffeted, and reviled ; to be spit upon, to be crowned with thorns, and struck with a reed; to be blindfolded, to be stripped of Thy garments, to be nailed to a cross and raised thereon, to be numbered among thieves, to be made to drink of gall and vinegar, and to be pierced with a lance : do Thou, O Lord, by these Thy most holy sufferings, which we Thy servants, commemorate, and by Thy most holy cross and death, deliver us from the pains of hell, and con- duct us, as Thou didst conduct the penitent thief, into Thy paradise. Who iiveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen