Twelfth Station ~ Jesus Dies on the Cross

Twelfth Station 

Twelfth Station St. Emma Monastery

Jesus Dies on the Cross

Prayer:

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!"

And into Your hands, Jesus Christ my most merciful redeemer,

Infinite Love, 

I commend myself in the hour of death-

my body and soul, 

my heart and my mind and my will, 

All that I have done and all that I am.

Into Your hands,

the beautiful hands of a carpenter

with their line and sinew and muscle, 

strong and sensitive hands

nailed to the cross, 

I commend those whom I love.

Hands that can heal the sick,

can give sight to the blind;

hands that raise the dead

and restore them to life with a touch,

receive those whom I love,

receive them and bless them from the cross;

receive them, comfort them, lead and uphold them;

unity them to Yourself

and re-unite them to me 

for ever more in Your Kingdom, 

Jesus, merciful Lord.

Amen

The Way of the Cross  by Caryll Houselander