At the Shrine of Our Lady of Clemency
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O MOST holy Mother, Queen of sorrows, who didst follow thy beloved Son through all the Way of the Cross, and whose heart was pierced with a fresh sword of grief at all the stations of that most sorrowful journey, obtain for us, we beseech thee, O most loving Mother a perpetual remembrance of our Blessed Saviour's Cross and Death, and a true and tender devotion to all the mysteries of his most holy Passion. Obtain for us the grace to hate sin, even as he hated it in the agony in the garden; to endure wrong and insult with all patience as he endured them in the judgment hall; to be meek and humble in all our trials as he was before his judges; to love our enemies even as he loved his murderers, and prayed for them upon the Cross; and to glorify God and to do good to our neighbour, even as he did in every mystery of his suffering. O Queen of Martyrs, who by the Dolours of thy Immaculate Heart on Calvary, didst merit to share the Passion of Our Most Holy Redeemer, obtain for us some portion of thy compassion, that for the love of Jesus crucified, we may be crucified to the world in this life, and in the life to come may, by his infinite merits and thy powerful intercession, reign with him in glory everlasting. Amen.

HYMN
Christ, when this world's troubles leave me
Through thy Mother then receive me
To the palm of victory.
When the bonds of flesh are riven
Glory to my soul be given
In thy Paradise with thee. Amen.

AFTER THE WAY OF THE CROSS


V. Christ for us became obedient unto death.
R. Even the death of the Cross.


Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the Cross. Who liveth and reigneth world without end. Amen.


In conclusion:
Our Father… Hail Mary…Glory be…


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