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THE WAY OF THE CROSS.
pity, for in Thy pity lies my trust. May my heart ever answer Thine.
NINTH STATION.
Jesus falls a third time.
My Jesus, by all the bitter woes Thou didst endure, when a third time the heavy cross bowed Thee to the earth, O never, never let me fall away; but rather let me die than ever mortally sin again. Amen.
TENTH STATION.
Jesus is stripped, and receives gall to drink.
My Jesus, stripped naked of Thy clothes, and drenched with gall, strip me of love for things of earth, and make me loathe all that savors of the world and sin.
ELEVENTH STATION.
Jesus is nailed to the Cross.
My Jesus, by Thine agony when