Saints LightStations of the Cross: Closing Prayer
This prayer closes the Way of the Cross; written for this app in the spirit of St Alphonsus Liguori. Many people add one Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of the Holy Father, as the Church asks for the indulgence attached to this devotion.
The prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, I have walked with you from the judgment hall to the tomb. Thank you for every step you took for me, for every wound you bore, and for the love that held you to the cross when you could have come down.
Do not let this journey end here. Let what I have seen stay with me, so that I may carry my own cross with patience, serve those who suffer, and turn from sin. You died and rose again; give me a share in your victory, now and at the hour of my death.
We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. Amen.
Pray it this week
After you finish the Stations this week, sit for two minutes in silence before getting up, and ask which station spoke to you most.
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
- Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
- The whole Prayer Book
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