Settima Stazione: Gesù cade la seconda volta
The Second Fall
The devotee begins by adoring Christ and contemplating the renewed agony of his second fall under the weight of the cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.✦ Consider Jesus's second fall under the cross, which renews the pain of every wound in his sacred head and all his other holy members for the afflicted Lord.
A Prayer for Perseverance
The devotee confesses their own repeated failures and asks for the grace to persevere in Christ's love during times of temptation.
My most gentle Jesus, how many times you have forgiven me, and I have fallen again into offending you! Oh!1 By the merit of this new fall, help me to persevere in your grace until death; grant that in every temptation that assails me, I may always entrust myself to you.
An Act of Loving Surrender
The devotee expresses deep repentance and a desire for total union with Christ, surrendering their will to his divine disposal.
I love you, my Jesus, more than myself; I repent with all my heart for having offended you. Forgive me, and don't allow me to separate myself 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 la seconda caduta di Gesù sotto la croce, con la quale si rinnova all’afflitto Signore il dolore di tutte le ferite del suo venerando capo e di tutte le altre sue sacre membra. – Mansuetissimo Gesù mio, quante volte mi hai perdonato e io sono tornato a cadere ad offenderti! Deh! Per il merito di questa nuova caduta, aiutami a perseverare nella tua grazia fino alla morte; fa’ che in tutte le tentazioni che mi assaliranno, io sempre mi raccomandi a te.
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
Notes
- 1 ↩Italian Deh! is a pleading interjection (Ah! / Oh!); rendered as Ah! to keep the brief sigh of entreaty before the petition.
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