The Carrying of the Cross
The Dominican Manual, 1913Source and notes
Source
| Printed in | THE Dominican Manual: A SELECTION OF PRAYERS AND DEVOTIONS, AUTHORISED BY THE CHURCH, AND ENRICHED WITH NUMEROUS INDULGENCES. |
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| Imprint | Dublin, BROWNE AND NOLAN, LTD., NASSAU STREET., 1913 |
| Pages | pp. 253–254 |
| Scan | leaf 279, leaf 280 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: THOMAS O’DONNELL, Censor Theol. Deput. Imprimatur: ✠ GULIELMUS, Archiep. Dublinen., Hiberniæ Primas. Die 16ᵒ Junii, 1913. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Saints
- St. Dominic
- Prayers for
- acceptance of God's will
NINTH SATURDAY.
The Carrying of the Cross.
Before Communion.—Jesus bends under the weight of his cross. Whence proceeds this weight? From my sins. . . O Lord! I desire with the daughters of Jerusalem to weep over thy sufferings. Thou comest to me. Thou presentest to me thy holy cross. Oh, I accept it with all my heart. I will die in its embraces.
After Communion.—O my God, thou hast entered into my heart. Permit not, that it should be to thee as a new Calvary, an ungrateful, barren, unfruitful soil. May thy precious blood blot out my sins. May the memory of thy dolorous passion be to me a most powerful protection of soul and body against all the deceits, temptations and molestations of my cruel enemies. Amen.
Prayer.—O sweet Virgin Mary, Queen of the holy Rosary, by the sword of sorrow which pierced thy heart on beholding Jesus carrying the cross, obtain for me the grant of my earnest petitions. Amen.
Practice.—Resignation under all trials to the will of God.
Example.—St. Dominic braved every danger when there was question of saving a soul. He was once warned of a party of heretics who lay concealed in a certain place, to assassinate him. He treated the information with indifference, and passed on. On their next meeting, the heretics accosted him, thus: “And so thou dost not fear death? Tell us what wouldst thou have done if thou hadst fallen into our hands?” “I would have prayed you,” said the great Dominic, “not to have taken my life at a single blow, but little by little, cutting off each member of my body one by one; and having done that, that you should have plucked out my eyes, and then have left me so, to prolong my torments and to enrich my crown.”