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 cused by false witnesses, unjustly judged by three judges, condemned innocent in the chosen city, at Paschal time, in the bloom of youth, stripped of thy own clothing and clothed in the garments of another, buffeted, thy face and eyes veiled, smitten with blows, bound to the pillar, scourged, crowned with thorns, struck with a reed on the head, and torn with numberless other acts of violence. Give me, O Lord God, I beseech thee, before I die, in memory of these thy passions before the cross, a true contrition, true confession, worthy satisfaction and remission of all my sins. Amen.

''Our Father. Hail Mary. ''

O Jesus, maker of the world, whom no measure by just bounds doth compass, who inclosest the earth in thy palm, remember the most bitter grief which thou didst endure, when the Jews first fastened thy most sacred hands to the cross with dull nails, and as thou wast not agreeable to their will, added pain to pain in thy wounds by perforating thy most delicate feet, and cruelly wrenched and distended thee the length and breadth of thy cross, so that the joints of thy limbs were