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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Stations of the Cross |
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Station I: Jesus is Condemned to Death
V. We adore thee, 0 Christ. And we bless thee:
R. Because by thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.
Behold the Lord of justice now standing before the judgment seat. Pilate washes his hands; the rulers of Judaea take his blood upon their heads and on their children.
V. Holy god, holy and mighty, holy and immortal,
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. He spared not his own son,
R. But delivered him up for us all.
LET US PRAY.
0 BLESSED LORD JESUS, condemned to death for our sins; Grant us true repentance, that, being washed in that stream which flows from Calvary through the Sacraments of thy Holy Church to the end of time, we may evermore serve thee with pure hearts and minds; who now livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. AMEN.
See how Pilate makes ablution
As the crowd shouts "crucify"
Who in cowardly surrender
Owning caesar, Christ deny
Thus condemning him their maker
On a shameful cross to die.