Lord Jesus Christ, take me along that holy way you once took to your death, Take my mind, my memory, above all my reluctant heart, and let me see what you once did for love of me and all the world.

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.

Because by your Holy Cross, you have redeemed the world.

Thirteenth Station: Jesus is taken down from the cross

And many women were there, watching from a distance, the same women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after him. Among them were mary of Magdala, mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons. When it was evening, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, called Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate there-upon ordered it to be handed over. – Matthew 27:55-58

Prayer from “A Woman’s Way of the Cross” by Sylvia Hunter