Hour, Have Mercy on Us

R. Have mercy on us, 0 Lord, have mercy on us. 0 Lord Jesus! hanging dead upon the and wounded in thy side with a spear, m thy holy mother’s presence, whence issued forth water and blood, have mercy on us.

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

O Lord Jesus ! taken down from the cross, . „(wGoogiP 2 DEVOTIONS ON THE and bathed with the tears of thy most sorrow- ful mother, have mercy on us.

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

O Lord Jesus! torn and bruised for our soke, bearing the sacred marks of thy five most precious wounds, embalmed with spices, and laid in the sepulchre, have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, 0 Lord, have mercy on us.

V. He truly bore our sorrows.

R. And was laden with our grief. LET US PRAY.

O God, who, for the redemption of the world, didst vouchsafe to be born, to be cir- cumcised, to be rejected by the Jews, to be betrayed by a kiss, to be bound like a male- factor, and, like an innocent lamb, to be led to slaughter, to be ignominiously brought before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate, and Herod ; to be accused by false witnesses, to be scourged with whips, buffeted, defiled with spittle, crowned with thorns, stripped of thy gar- ments, fastened to the cross, placed between two thieves, to drink of vinegar and gall, and to have thy side pierced through with a spear.

O Lord, by these most grievous pains, which I, though unworthy, do commemorate, and by thy most sacred death and passion, free me from the pains of hell, and conduct me whither thy mercy didst conduct the penitent thief, crucified with thee, who, together with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest for ever. R» Amen