The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Mark 15:1-5, 15
And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” And the chief priests accused him of many things. And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barab’bas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
1ª Estación: Jesús sentenciado a muerte
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Sentenciado y no por un tribunal, sino por todos. Condenado por los mismos que le habían aclamado poco antes. Y El calla… Nosotros huímos de ser reprochados. Y saltamos inmediatamente…
Dame, Señor, imitarte, uniéndome a Ti por el Silencio cuando alguien me haga sufrir. Yo lo merezco. ¡Ayúdame! Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Second Station: Jesus Carries the Cross
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: John 19:6, 15-17
When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.”
They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol’gotha.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
2ª Estación: Jesús cargado con la cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Que yo comprenda, Señor, el valor de la cruz, de mis pequeñas cruces de cada día, de mis achaques, de mis dolencias, de mi soledad.
Dame convertir en ofrenda amorosa, en reparación por mi vida y en apostolado por mis hermanos, mi cruz de cada día. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Third Station: Jesus Falls for the First Time
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: John 19:1-3
And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe; they came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
3ª Estación: Jesús cae, por primera vez, bajo el paso de la cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Tú caes, Señor, para redimirme. Para ayudarme a levantarme en mis caídas diarias, cuando después de haberme propuesto ser fiel, vuelvo a reincidir en mis defectos cotidianos. ¡Ayúdame a levantarme siempre y a seguir mi camino hacia Ti! Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Luke 2: 34-35
[And Simeon] said to Mary:
“Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.”
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
4ª Estación: Encuentro con la Virgen
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Haz Señor, que me encuentre al lado de tu Madre en todos los momentos de mi vida.
Con ella, apoyándome en su cariño maternal, tengo la seguridad de llegar a Ti en el último día de mi existencia. ¡Ayúdame Madre! Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Fifth Station: Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Mark 15:21
And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyre’ne, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
5ª Estación: el Cirineo ayuda al Señor a llevar la Cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Cada uno de nosotros tenemos nuestra vocación, hemos venido al mundo para algo concreto, para realizarnos de una manera particular.
¿Cuál es la mía y cómo la llevo a cabo? Pero hay algo, Señor, que es misión mía y de todos: la de ser Cirineo de los demás, la de ayudar a todos. ¿Cómo llevo adelante la realización de mi misión de Cirineo? Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Isaiah 53:2-3
He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
6ª Estación: la Verónica enjuga el rostro de Jesús
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Es la mujer valiente, decidida, que se acerca a Ti cuando todos te abandonan. Yo, Señor, te abandono cuando me dejo llevar por el “qúe dirán”, del respeto humano, cuando no me atrevo a defender al prójimo ausente, cuando no me atrevo a replicar una broma que ridiculiza a los que tratan de acercarse a Ti.
Y en tantas otras ocasiones. Ayúdame a no dejarme llevar por el respeto humano, por el “qué dirán”. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Seventh Station: Jesus Falls a Second Time
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Romans 8:31-32; 38-39
If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?…For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
7ª Estación: Segunda caída en el camino de la Cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Caes, Señor, por segunda vez. El Via Crucis nos señala tres caídas en tu caminar hacia el Calvario. Tal vez fueran más.
Caes delante de todos… ¿Cuándo aprenderé yo a no temer el quedar mál ante los demás, por un error, por una equivocación?. ¿Cuándo aprenderé que también eso se puede convertir en ofrenda? Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Luke 23:27-31
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
8ª Estación: Jesús consuela a las hijas de Jerusalén
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Muchas veces, tendría yo que analizar la causa de mis lágrimas. Al menos, de mis pesares, de mis preocupaciones. Tal vez hay en ellos un fondo de orgullo, de amor propio mal entendido, de egoismo, de envidia.
Debería llorar por mi falta de correspondencia a tus innumerables beneficios de cada día, que me manifiestan, Señor, cuánto me quieres. Dame profunda gratitud y correspondencia a tu misericordia. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Ninth Station: Jesus Falls a Third Time
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Psalm 38:4-9
For my iniquities have gone over my head;
they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
My wounds grow foul and fester
because of my foolishness,
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
For my loins are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
I am utterly spent and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
Lord, all my longing is known to thee,
my sighing is not hidden from thee.
My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Those who seek my life lay their snares,
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin,
and meditate treachery all the day long.
But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear,
like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
Yea, I am like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait;
it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
For I pray, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!”
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
9ª Estación: Jesús cae por tercera vez
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Tercera caída. Más cerca de la Cruz. Más agotado, más falto de fuerzas. Caes desfallecido, Señor.
Yo digo que me pesan los años, que no soy el de antes, que me siento incapaz. Dame, Señor, imitarte en esta tercera caída y haz que mi desfallecimiento sea beneficioso para otros, porque te lo doy a Ti para ellos. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Tenth Station: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: John 19:23-24
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom; so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the scripture, “They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.”
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
10ª Estación: Jesús despojado de sus vestiduras
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Arrancan tus vestiduras, adheridas a Ti por la sangre de tus heridas. A infinita distancia de tu dolor, yo he sentido, a veces, cómo algo se arrancaba dolorosamente de mí por la pérdida de mis seres queridos.
Que yo sepa ofrecerte el recuerdo de las separaciones que me desgarraron, uniéndome a tu pasión y esforzándome en consolar a los que sufren, huyendo de mi propio egoismo. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Luke 23:33-34
And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
11ª Estación: Jesús es clavado en la Cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu Santa Cruz redimiste al mundo. Señor, que yo disminuya mis limitaciones con mi esfuerzo y así pueda ayudar a mis hermanos. Y que cuando mi esfuerzo no consiga disminuirlas, me esfuerce en ofrecértelas también por ellos. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Luke 23:44-46
It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 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 thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
12ª Estación: Jesús muere en la Cruz
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Te adoro, mi Señor, muerto en la Cruz por Salvarme. Te adoro y beso tus llagas, las heridas de los clavos, la lanzada del costado… ¡Gracias, Señor, gracias! Has muerto por salvarme, por salvarnos.
Dame responder a tu amor con amor, cumplir tu Voluntad, trabajar por mi salvación, ayudado de tu gracia. Y dame trabajar con ahínco por la salvación de mis hermanos. Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
The Thirteenth Station: Jesus’ Body is Removed from the Cross
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you. (Kneel)
Response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Rise)
Scripture: Matthew 27:57-58
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathe´a, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be…
13ª Estación: Jesús en brazos de su madre
Te adoramos, Señor, y te bendecimos, porque por tu santa cruz redimiste al mundo. Déjame estar a tu lado, Madre, especialmente en estos momentos de tu dolor incomparable. Déjame estar a tu lado. Más te pido: que hoy y siempre me tengas cerca de Ti y te compadezcas de mí.
¡Mírame con compasión , no me dejes, Madre mía! Señor, pequé, ten piedad y misericordia de mí. Amén.
Padre Nuestro, Ave María y Gloria…
