THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS

1. Jesus is Condemned to Death - God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son to save it (John 3, 16).
2. Jesus Bears His Cross - If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily (Luke 9, 23).
3. Jesus Falls the First Time - The Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all (Isaiah 53, 6).
4. Jesus Meets his Mother - Come, all you who pass by the way, look and see whether there is any suffering like my suffering (Lam. 1, 13).
5. Jesus is Helped by Simon - As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me (Matt. 25, 40).
6. Veronica wipes the Face of Jesus - He who sees me, sees also the Father (John 14, 9).
7. Jesus Falls a Second Time - Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest (Matt. 11, 28).
8. Jesus Speaks to the Women - Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children (Luke 23, 2).
9. Jesus Falls a Third Time - Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted (Luke 14, 11).
10. Jesus is Stripped of His Garments - Every one of you who does not renounce all the he posses cannot be my disciple (Luke 14, 33).
11. Jesus is Nailed to the Cross - I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me (John 6, 38).
12. Jesus Dies on the Cross - He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even to death on a cross. Therefore God has exalted him (Phil. 2, 8-9).
13. Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross - Did not the Christ have to suffer those things before entering into his glory? (Luke 24, 26).
14. Jesus is Placed in the Tomb - Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit (John 12, 24-25).