PART SECOND.
THE DOLOROUS OR SORROWFUL MYSTERIES.
For Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the year, and the Sundays in Lent.
I. — THE PRAYER AND BLOODY SWEAT OF OUR SAVIOUR IN THE GARDEN.
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ was so afflicted for us in the Garden of Gethsemani, that his body was bathed in a bloody sweat, which ran trickling down in great drops to the ground.
Our Father, etc. [once]. Hail Mary, etc. [ten times].
The Prayer.
MOST holy Virgin, more than martyr, by that ardent prayer which thy beloved Son poured forth unto his Father in the Garden, vouchsafe to intercede for us, that our passions being reduced to the obedience of reason, we may always, and in all things, conform and subject ourselves to the will of God. Amen.
II. — THE SCOURGING OF JESUS AT THE PILLAR.
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ, being delivered up by Pilate to the fury of the Jews, was by them most cruelly scourged at a pillar.
Our Father, etc. [once]. Hail Mary, etc. [ten times] .
The Prayer.
O MOTHER of God, overflowing fountain of patience, by those stripes thy only and most
