Saints LightThirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
The Thirteenth Station recalls the body of Jesus taken down from the cross (John 19:38-39), with Mary receiving her Son as tradition and Christian art remember it; written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Pray it for anyone who is grieving.
The prayer
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take the body of Jesus down from the cross and lay him in the arms of his Mother. Mary holds the Son she once held as a newborn in Bethlehem. Now he is still and wounded. Her grief is beyond words, yet her faith does not fail. She trusts the Father's promise even in the darkest hour, and she waits.
Mother of sorrows, you held your Son in your arms after his death. Comfort all who mourn, and teach me to keep faith and hope when God seems silent and my heart is broken.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Pray it this week
Reach out this week to someone who has lost a loved one, with a call, a card or a visit.
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
- Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
- Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
- Stations of the Cross: Closing Prayer
- The whole Prayer Book
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