First Mystery: The Agony in the Garden
Let us contemplate how our Lord Jesus Christ was so afflicted for us in the garden of Gethsemane that His body was bathed in a sweat of blood.
1 Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Second Mystery: The Scourging at the Pillar
Let us contemplate how our Lord Jesus Christ, being delivered up by Pilate to the fury of the soldiers, was tied to a pillar and most cruelly scourged.
1 Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Third Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns
Let us contemplate how those cruel ministers plated a crown of sharp thorns and pressed it on the Sacred Head of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Fourth Mystery: The Carrying of the Cross
Let us contemplate how our Lord Jesus Christ, being sentenced to die, bore with the most amazing patience, the Cross which was laid upon Him, for His greater torment and ignominy.
1 Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be
Fifth Mystery: The Crucifixion
Let us contemplate how our Lord Jesus Christ was stripped of His clothes, and how His hands and feet were most cruelly nailed to the Cross, on which He died, in the presence of His most afflicted Mother.
1 Our Father, 10 Hail Mary, 1 Glory be