Pass Away from Him

O Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, nave mercy on us. (Ten times) Glory, &c. III. Our Saviour is apprehended. The Meditation.— Our Saviour, as if he THE ROSARY OF THE had been no more than mortal man, yields to the power of men, and permits himself, for our redemption, to be apprehended, as if he were a malefactor.

O Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, have mercy on us. (Ten times) Glory, &c. IV. Our Saviour carries his Cross* The Meditation. — Our Saviour, being tom with scourges, and pierced with thorns, to expiate our sins, is obliged to carry the cross on which he is to die, and moves on, labouring in sorrow, towards the place of his crucifixion.

O Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, have mercy on us. (Ten times) Glory, &c.

V. The Descent of our Saviour into Hell. The Meditation. — The soul of our Sa- viour, being separated by death from the body, descends to the place where the saints were expecting their redemption. THE PRAYER.

O J E8US, whose name is above all names, that in the name of Jesus every knee may bend, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and in hell. Whose mysterious humiliations and sorrows, appointed for thee on account of our sins, appeared in thy washing of the feet of thy servants and creatures ; in thy distress, and prayer, and bloody sweat ; in thy being secured and brought before courts as a cri- MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS. 245 minal ; in thy bearing the load of the cross ; and in the separation of thy soul from the body, and its descent to the regions below : grant to us to celebrate these mysteries to thy honour and our own salvation. Who with the Father and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, one God, for all eternity. Amen