Quattordicesima Stazione: Gesù è sepolto
The Burial of the Lord
The faithful contemplate the burial of Jesus and look forward to the hope of the Resurrection.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.✦ Think of how the disciples carried Jesus, already dead, to be buried, still accompanied by his holy Mother, who laid him in the tomb with her own hands. Then they closed the tomb and all went away. Ah! My Jesus, buried, I kiss this stone that enclosed you. But from there, after three days, you rose again; I beg you, by your Resurrection, to make me rise on the last day with you in glory, so that I may come to remain forever united with you in heaven, to praise you and love you forever.
A Prayer of Love and Repentance
A concluding prayer expressing deep love, contrition, and a desire for eternal union with Christ.
I love you, my Jesus, more than myself; with all my heart I repent of having offended you. Forgive me, and do not let me be separated from you. Grant that I may always love you, and then do with me as you please.
Read the original Latin
Ti adoriamo, o Cristo, e ti benediciamo, perché con la tua santa Croce hai redento il mondo.
Considera come i discepoli portarono a seppellire Gesù già morto, accompagnato ancora dalla sua santa Madre, la quale lo accomodò nel sepolcro con le sue stesse mani. Quindi chiusero il sepolcro e di là tutti si allontanarono. – Ah! Gesù mio, seppellito, bacio questa pietra, che ti racchiuse. Ma di là dopo tre giorni risorgesti; ti prego per la tua Risurrezione di farmi risorgere nel giorno finale con te glorioso, per venire a stare sempre unito a te in cielo a lodarti e amarti per sempre.
Io ti amo, Gesù mio, più di me stesso, mi pento con tutto il cuore di averti offeso. Perdonami e non permettere che mi separi da te. Fa’ che sempre ti ami e poi disponi di me come ti piace.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Gal.6.14;Col.1.20;1Pet.1.18-1Pet.1.19 — But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Col.1.20 — and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross — through him, whether things on earth or things in the heavens. 1Pet.1.18 — knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things—silver or gold—from your futile way of life handed down from your fathers, 1Pet.1.19 — but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot
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