THE TWELFTH STATION OF THE CROSS
Jesus Dies on the Cross

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L:  We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.
     (Bow)
All:  By your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

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L:  It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun's light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last.     (Luke 23:44-46)

(Kneel/sit and pause for reflection)

L:  When you make his life an offering for sin

All:  He shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the LORD shall prosper. Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.     (Isaiah 53:10b-12)

L:  Let us pray.  Who would have believed it, O God?  Who would have thought that the Savior would die?  Yet in the world's darkest hour, you snatched him out of the jaws of death, crushing sin and death underfoot.  Keep us ever close to his cross and death, now and at the hour of our death;  through Jesus Christ our Lord.

All:  Amen

(Stand and move to the next station, singing:)

          Stunned and stricken, Mary, Mother,
          In your arms was placed our Brother,
          "Full of grace" not filled with grief.

On to THE THIRTEENTH STATION
Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross...

The Stations Of The Cross: . .

OPENING PRAYER
Before the Altar

THE FIRST STATION
Jesus Is Condemned to Death

THE SECOND STATION
Jesus Carries His Cross

THE THIRD STATION
Jesus Falls the First Time

THE FOURTH STATION
Jesus Meets His Afflicted Mother

THE FIFTH STATION
Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross

THE SIXTH STATION
A Woman Offers Comfort to Jesus

THE SEVENTH STATION
Jesus Falls a Second Time

THE EIGHTH STATION
Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem

THE NINTH STATION
Jesus Falls a Third Time

THE TENTH STATION
Jesus Is Stripped of His Clothes

THE ELEVENTH STATION
Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross

THE TWELFTH STATION
Jesus Dies on the Cross

THE THIRTEENTH STATION
Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross

THE FOURTEENTH STATION
Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb

Closing Prayer
Before the Altar