CONCLUSION
ALMIGHTY and eternal God! merciful Father! Who hast given to the human race Thy beloved Son as an example of humility, obedience, and patience, to precede us on the Way of the Cross and on the Way of Life, graciously grant that we, inflamed by His infinite love, may take upon us the sweet yoke of His Gospel and the mortification of the cross, following Him as His true disciples, so that we may one day gloriously rise with Him and joyfully hear the final sentence: "Come ye blessed of My Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matt. xxv. 34).
Stabat Mater
AT the cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.
Through her heart. His sorrow sharing.
All His bitter anguish bearing.
Now at length the sword has passed.
Oh, how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother highly blessed
Of the sole-begotten One!
