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 O Jesus, who didst expire on the cross, who, in presence of thy holy Mother, wast pierced with a lance, and from whose side poured forth blood and water : have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us,

O Jesus, who west taken down from the cross, and bathed in the tears of thy most sorrowing Virgin Mother: have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

O Jesus, who wast covered with bruises, marked with the five wounds, embalmed with spices, and laid in the sepulchre: have mercy on us.

R. Have mercy on us, O Lord; have mercy on us.

V. He truly hath borne our sorrows.

R. And he hath carried our griefs.

O God, who for the redemption of the world didst deign to be born, to be circumcised, to be rejected by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas with a kiss, to be bound with fetters, and led like  an  innocent  lamb  to  the  slaughter,  to  be  ignominiously brought before  Annas,  Caiphas,  Pilate,  and  Herod,  to be  accused  by  false  witnesses,  to  be  scourged,  buffeted,  and reviled, to  be  spit  upon,  to  be  crowned  with  thorns,  And struck with  a  reed,  to  be  blindfolded,  to  be  stripped  of  thy garments, to  be  nailed  to  a  cross  and  raised  thereon,  to  be numbered  among  thieves,  to  be  made  to  drink  of  gall  and vinegar, and  to  be pierced  with  a  lance:  do  then,  O  Lord, by these thy  most  holy  sufferings,  which  I,  thy  unworthy servant commemorate,  and  by  thy  most  holy  cross  and death, deliver  me  from  the  pains  of  hell,  and  vouchsafe  to conduct  me  whither  thou  didst  conduct  the  penitent  thief who was  crucified  with  thee. Who with  the Father  and  the Holy Ghost  livest  and  reignest  for  ever  and  ever. Amen.

O Lord Jesus  Christ,  I  adore  the  sacred  wound  of  thy  left foot. I thank  thee for  the  pain which  thou  didst  endure