Saints LightFourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
The Fourteenth Station recalls the burial of Jesus in the new tomb near Calvary (John 19:40-42, Matthew 27:59-60); written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Pray it as the last station, with your eyes already turned toward Easter.
The prayer
V. We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
His friends wrap the body in clean linen with spices and lay it in a new tomb cut from the rock. A great stone is rolled across the entrance. All is quiet. The disciples have scattered, and hope seems buried with him. But the seed has been planted in the earth, and the silence of this Saturday is the silence before the dawn. In three days the tomb will be empty.
Lord Jesus, you rested in the tomb before rising in glory. Let me die to sin and rise with you to new life, and when my body is laid to rest, raise me up on the last day.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be.
Pray it this week
Visit a cemetery this week, or the grave of someone you love, and pray for them while remembering that Christ has opened the tomb.
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
- Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
- Stations of the Cross: Closing Prayer
- The whole Prayer Book
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