While praying the Mass prayers, we remember Christ's Passion and stand at the foot of Our Lord's most Holy Cross...
The Priest Goes to the Foot of the Altar... Jesus enters the Garden
At the Beginning of Mass... Prayer of Jesus in the Garden
At the Confiteor... Jesus prostrated in the Garden
The Priest kisses the Altar... Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss
The Priest goes to the Epistle side... Jesus is dragged to prison
At the Introit... Jesus receives a blow
At the Kyrie Eleison... Jesus is denied thrice by St. Peter
At the Dominus Vobiscum... Jesus looks at Peter; touches his heart
The Epistle... Jesus is conducted to the house of Pilate
At the Munda Cor Meum... Jesus is led to Herod
At the Gospel... Jesus is mocked as a fool, and sent back to Pilate
The Priest uncovers the Chalice... Jesus is stripped of His garments
At the Offertory... Jesus is scourged
The Priest offers the Chalice... Jesus is crowned with thorns
The Priest washes his fingers... Pilate washes his hands
At the Orate Fratres... Pilate says to the Jews, ―Behold the Man
At the Preface... Jesus is condemned to death
At the Memento for the living... Jesus carries His Cross
At the Communicantes... Veronica wipes the face of Jesus with a linen cloth
The Priest makes the sign of the cross over the chalice... Jesus is nailed to the Cross
At the elevation of the Host... The Cross of Jesus elevated between heaven, earth
The elevation of the Chalice... The Blood of Jesus flows from His Wounds
At the Memento for the Dead... Jesus prays for the souls of mankind
At the Novis Quoque Peccatoribus... The conversion of the thief
At the Pater Noste... The Seven Words of Jesus
At the Division of the Host... Jesus expires on the Cross
The priest puts a particle of the Host into the Chalice... The Soul of Jesus descends into Limbo
The Agnus Dei... The conversion of many
At the Communion... Jesus is buried
At the Ablution... Jesus is embalmed
After the Communion... Resurrection of Jesus Christ
At the Dominus Vobiscum... Jesus appears to His Disciples
At the Postcommunion... Jesus converses for forty days with His disciples
The Last Dominus Vobiscum... Jesus ascends into Heaven
At the Priest‘s Blessing... The descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles.
Call to Action: Pray the Stations of the Cross each Friday.
Source: Key of Heaven, 1924
Photo by Boguslaw Nowak