Twelfth Station: Jesus Speaks to His Mother and the Disciple

R. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.

V. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

Reader: Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

John 19: 25-27

Prayer

A mother’s love, O Lord, is like no other. So you entrusted the youngest apostle to the care of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Entrust the child in her mother’s womb to the Blessed Mother, Lord, Entrust the prisoner who sits on death row to her care. Entrust the work of the scientist who seeks a cure to her, and the life of the old man in a hospital bed, as well. May we all live under the protection of Mary, our mother, from our conception to natural death. For you are Lord, forever and ever. Amen.