The Sorrowful Mysteries - Meditations based on the Collects of the Mass

The Agony in the Garden

O God, author of every mercy and of all goodness, who in fasting, prayer and almsgiving have shown us a remedy for sin, look graciously on this confession of our lowliness, that we, who are bowed down by our conscience, may always be lifted up by your mercy.

The Scourging at the Pillar

We beseech you, Lord our God, grant us, we pray, that we may walk eagerly in that same charity with which, out of love for the world, your Son handed himself over to death.

The Crowning with Thorns

Almighty and eternal God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection.

The Carrying of the Cross

O God, who willed that your Son should submit for our sakes to the yoke of the Cross, so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy, grant us, your servants, to attain the grace of the resurrection.

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus

Look, we pray, O Lord, on this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ did not hesitate to be delivered into the hands of the wicked and submit to the agony of the Cross.