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Veronica Offers Her Veil to Jesus
PRESIDER:We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You.Genuflect.PEOPLE:Because by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world.Rise.PRESIDER:On that dread day, a woman, Veronica, ignoring what bystanders might think, reverently wipes the face of Jesus bruised and stained with dust and blood and recognizes in that suffering countenance the very Face of Divinity.PEOPLE:Lord, grant that, like Veronica, I may brave all human respect in order to carry Your image at all times with me, not on a veil made out of cloth but on the indelible tablet of my heart, knowing that there is only one way I can become exactly like You, and that is by suffering. Amen.
She beheld her tender Child,Bruised, derided, cursed, defiledAll with bloody scourges rent.>> Proceed to Station VII