Saints LightTwelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
The Twelfth Station is the heart of the Way of the Cross: the death of Jesus on Calvary (John 19:25-30, Luke 23:39-46); written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Many people kneel for this station; pray it especially on Fridays at three in the afternoon.
The prayer
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
For three hours Jesus hangs between heaven and earth. He gives his Mother to the beloved disciple and the disciple to his Mother. He promises paradise to a repentant thief. Then, with a loud cry, he commends his spirit into the Father's hands, bows his head and dies. Here is the whole meaning of love: to lay down one's life for one's friends. He has done it for you.
Lord Jesus, you died that I might live. I kneel before your cross with sorrow and gratitude. Let me never forget the price of my salvation, and when my own hour comes, receive my spirit into your hands.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Pray it this week
On Friday at three in the afternoon, wherever you are, pause for one minute of silence to remember the death of the Lord.
More in Stations of the Cross
- Stations of the Cross: Opening Prayer
- First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Death
- Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
- Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
- Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
- Fifth Station: Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross
- Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
- Seventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
- Eighth Station: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
- Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
- Tenth Station: Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
- Eleventh Station: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
- Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
- Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
- Stations of the Cross: Closing Prayer
- The whole Prayer Book
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