The First Station

Jesus Is Condemned To Death

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, give me the grace not to be bitter about injustice that comes into my life, but rather to follow you with dignity and with courage.

The Second Station

Jesus Takes Up His Cross

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord, by your example of humility, give me the courage to carry my cross. Help me not to complain, not to run away from it, not to pretend, but to carry it without grumbling. Deliver me from all kinds of bargaining with you about how much better it would be if I had some other cross. And if I am bitter because of the cross I have, give me your strength to overcome that bitterness. Help me to carry my cross.

The Third Station

Jesus Falls The First Time

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ fallen beneath the cross, teach us by this powerful example, teach us your humility and break our pride that always wants to walk on. If we try to avoid doing your will, if we try to lead our lives without following your law, then we will live on the illusion that we do not fall. Deliver us from that terrible illusion. And if you must allow us to fall, then give us the grace to rise again and not to live in fear of falling, but rather to fear that we shall give up struggling at all. O fallen God, give us the courage to struggle on.

The Fourth Station

Jesus Meets His Afflicted Mother

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, as I contemplate the sorrows of your mother, I remember that you also have a human heart. I try to plunge into the grief that is in your heart. I can make it my own because sometimes I have felt that grief too. In your mother's heart were the words, "My love is crucified, my beloved son is crucified." O Lord Jesus Christ, give me your grace in the course of my life when I also must say, "My love is crucified."

The Fifth Station

Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, you humbly give help and you humbly accept the help of another. O Omnipotence who grows tired, O Mighty and Strong One who is relieved by another's labor, give me the grace to recognize the times you come to help me through others and give me the graciousness to ask for and accept that help. May I never be too proud to take the hand held out to me.

The Sixth Station

Veronica Wipes The Face of Jesus

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Christ our Lord, break our hearts by your holy face, and look at us when we are ugly and disfigured and alone and frightened and crazy. Look at us, O Christ, and break our hearts in half and grant that we may never pass you by.

The Seventh Station

Jesus Falls The Second Time

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Jesus Christ, in your desperate agony, you fall in the streets of Jerusalem. In exhaustion, you who were spotless purity, you who did not think being equal to God something to be clung to, you fell in that street.
O Lord, I may not be desperate now, but I will be desperate again. By the power of this Station, by the power you won for me when you fell beneath the cross, give me the grace to go on.

The Eighth Station

Jesus Speaks To The Weeping Women

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O gentle master, O patient God, O humble Messiah, teach me by your gentle kindness to put aside my own irritations and aggravations, to keep my own needs in proper perspective. Teach me to put aside all the things I want and cling to, especially my own comfort. Give me the strength to stop and to console you when I see you hidden along the way of life.

The Ninth Station

Jesus Falls The Third Time

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, when we come to the end, give us the grace to believe. When we are beyond any human hope, when all that our loved ones can possibly do is nothing at all, when we come to the end, give us the grace of your courage as we prepare for the Calvary that must come for each of us.

The Tenth Station

Jesus Is Stripped Of His Garments

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, give me the grace to see you wherever you are, never to turn away, never to mock, never to laugh, never to hide behind my defenses. Break my heart that I may see you in your disguises wherever I go.

The Eleventh Station

Jesus Is Nailed To The Cross

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, by this station give me the grace to recognize you in that greatest of ills, the illness of life itself. Help me to respect you in the old. Help me that I may know that by helping them I help you. If I should live to be old, O Savior, give me the grace to accept that cross as a joy and a blessing in preparation for your kingdom.

The Twelfth Station

Jesus Dies On The Cross

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Jesus Christ upon the cross, give me the grace to live out my baptism. Break my heart open and fill it with the love I need to live my life as one sealed with the cross of baptism, as one marked with the cross of repentance, and as one filled with hope because of the divine love that was shown to me on the cross. O Christ, engrave your cross deeply into my heart and the hearts of all those dear to me.

The Thirteenth Station

Jesus Is Taken Down From The Cross

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, I commend to you all who have run away from you, who have strayed from you, who know you not, whose hearts are dead to you. Come O Gentle Savior, in your own way and by the power of your Holy Spirit, come into their dead souls and bring them to life again. And as we pray in our darkness, give us some of the hope that filled the heart of Mary as she stood at the base of the cross.

The Fourteenth Station

Jesus Is Laid In The Tomb

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

O Lord Jesus Christ, we conclude this journey with a message of hope. And while we lament your passion and suffering, our tears are abated and our grief is overcome, not only for you, but for all the sorrows in our own lives because, you, O Jesus, will break open the tomb. We thank you, O Lord, and we ask you to keep always before our eyes the promise of your resurrection. Remind us that the Way of the Cross is the Way to Eternal Life.