II. Jesus
receives his cross
Priest: We adore you O Christ and we bless you.
All: Because by your holy
cross you have redeemed the world. Jesus said " If anyone would come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me." All:
Lord Jesus, you humbled yourself, becoming obedient to death, even death
on a cross. Help us to love your cross, and accept the crosses you ask us
to carry for love of you. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, all his
bitter anguish bearing, now at length the sword has passed.
