Padre Pio often recited this prayer and obtained thanks from Jesus
From the writings of Padre Pio: «Happy are we, who against all our merits, are already by divine mercy, on the steps of Calvary; we have already been made worthy to follow the heavenly Master, we have already been counted to the blessed party of the chosen souls; and all for a very special trait of Heavenly Father's divine piety. And we do not lose sight of this blessed party: let us always hold on to it and do not frighten us either the weight of the cross that must be carried, nor the long journey that must be traveled, nor the steep mountain to which we must ascend. Reassure us the consoling thought that after ascending Calvary, we will ascend even higher, without our effort; we will ascend to the holy mountain of God, to heavenly Jerusalem ... We ascend ... without ever getting tired, the Calvary laden with the cross, and we firmly believe that our ascension will lead us to the heavenly vision of our sweet Savior.
Let us go away, therefore, step by step from earthly affections, and aspire to happiness, which is prepared for us.
FIRST STATION: Jesus is sentenced to death.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you because with your cross you redeemed the world.
From the writings of Padre Pio: «Jesus sees himself tied up, dragged by his enemies through the streets of Jerusalem, through those same streets where a few days before he had triumphantly acclaimed as Messiah ... You see before the Pontiffs beaten, declared guilty of death by them . He, the author of life, sees himself led from one court to another in the presence of judges who condemn him. He sees his people, so loved and benefited by him, that he insults him, mistreats him and with infernal screams, with whistles and shouts he asks for their death and death on the cross ». (Ep. IV, pages 894-895) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the wounds of the Lord are impressed on my heart.
SECOND STATION: Jesus is loaded with the Cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: "How sweet ... the name" cross! "; here, at the foot of the cross of Jesus, the souls are clothed with light, they are inflamed with love; here they put wings to rise to the finest flights. May this cross also be for us the bed of our rest, the school of perfection, our beloved legacy. To this end, we take care not to separate the cross from love for Jesus: otherwise that without it would become an unbearable burden on our weakness ». (Ep. I, pages 601-602) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
THIRD STATION: Jesus falls for the first time.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «I suffer and suffer a lot, but thanks to the good Jesus, I feel still a little more strength; and what is the creature helped by Jesus not capable of? I do not want to be lightened on the cross, since suffering with Jesus is dear to me ... ». (Ep. I, p. 303)
«I am happy more than ever in suffering, and if I only listened to the voice of the heart, I would ask Jesus to give me all the sadness of men; but I don't, because I'm afraid I'm too selfish, craving for me the best part: pain. In pain Jesus is closer; he looks, it is he who comes to beg for pains, tears ...; he needs it for souls ». (Ep. I, p. 270) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
FOURTH STATION: Jesus meets the Mother.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: "Let us too, like so many chosen souls, always keep following this blessed Mother, always walk with her, since there is no other path that leads to life, if not that beaten by our Mother: we refuse this way, we who want to come to an end. Let us always associate ourselves with this yes dear Mother: we go out with her outside of Jerusalem, symbol and figure of the field of Jewish obstinacy, of the world that rejects and denies Jesus Christ, ... bringing the glorious oppression of his cross with Jesus ». (Ep. I, pages 602-603) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
FIFTH STATION: Jesus is helped by the Cyrenean (Padre Pio)
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you because ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «He chooses souls and among these, against all my demerits, he also chose mine to be helped in the great shop of human salvation. And the more these souls suffer without any comfort the more the pains of the good Jesus are lightened ». (Ep. I, p. 304) It is incomprehensible that relief is given to Jesus not only "by pitying him in his sorrows, but when he finds a soul who for his sake asks him not for consolation, but to be made a participant of his own pains ... Jesus ..., when he wants to be delighted ..., he speaks to me of his pains, invites me, with a voice at the same time of prayer and command, to affix my body to lighten his pains ». (Ep. I, p. 335) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
SIXTH STATION: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «How beautiful is his face and his sweet eyes, and how good it is to be beside him on the mountain of his glory! There we must place all our desires and our affections ». (Ep. III, p. 405)
The prototype, the specimen on which we need to reflect and shape our life is Jesus Christ. But Jesus chose the cross as his banner and therefore he wants all his followers to beat the way of Calvary, carrying the cross and then expiring on it. Only by this path can salvation be reached ». (Ep. III, p. 243) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
SEVENTH STATION: Jesus falls for the second time under the cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «I am besieged from every point, forced by a thousand instances to frantically and desperately seek the one who cruelly wounded and continues to go haywire without ever being seen; contradicted in every way, closed on each side, tempted in every way, totally possessed by the power of others ... I still feel all the bowels burning. In short, everything is placed in iron and fire, spirit and body. And I with a soul full of sadness and with parched and hysterical eyes from shedding tears, I must attend ... to all this agony, to this complete breakdown ... ». (Ep. I, p. 1096) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
EIGHTH STATION: Jesus consoles the pious women.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «It seems to me that I disagree with all the complaints of the Savior. At least the man, for whom I agonize ... was grateful to me, rewarded me with so much love of mine to suffer for him ». (Ep. IV, p. 904)
This is the way by which the Lord leads strong souls. Here (that soul) he will learn better to know what our true homeland is, and to regard this life as a short pilgrimage. Here she will learn to rise above all created things and to put the world under her feet. An admirable force will draw you ... And then the sweet Jesus will not leave her in this state without comforting her ». (Ep. I, p. 380). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
NINTH STATION: Jesus falls for the third time under the cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «He is prostrate with his face on the earth before the majesty of his Father. That divine face, which keeps the heavenly areas ecstatic in eternal admiration of its beauty, is on earth all disfigured. My God! My Jesus! are you not the God of heaven and earth, equal in all respects to your Father, who humbles you to the point of almost losing the appearance of man? Ah! yes, I understand it, it is to teach me proud that to deal with the sky I have to sink into the center of the earth. And to make amends for atonement for my haughtiness, that you may so deepen before the majesty of your Father; it is to give him that glory which the proud man has taken away from him; it is to bend his pitying gaze on humanity ... And for your humiliation he forgives the proud creature ». (Ep. IV pages 896-897). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the wounds of ...
TENTH STATION: Jesus is stripped.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «On Mount Calvary reside the hearts that the heavenly Bridegroom favors ... But pay attention to what they are to say. The inhabitants of that hill must be stripped of all worldly clothes and affections, as their king was of the clothes he wore when he arrived there. Look ... Jesus' clothes were holy, not having been desecrated, when the executioners took them away from him in the house of Pilate, it was fitting that our divine master would take off his clothes, to show us that on this hill he should not bring anything profane; and whoever dares to do the opposite, Calvary is not for it, that mystical ladder by which one ascends to heaven. Therefore, be careful ... to enter the feast of the cross, a thousand times more delicious than the worldly wedding, without the white, white and clear garment of a completely different intention, than that of pleasing the divine Lamb ». (Ep. III, p. 700-701). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
ELEVENTH STATION: Jesus is crucified.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «Oh! if it were possible for me to open my whole heart and make you read everything that passes ... By now, thank God, the victim has already risen to the altar of burnt offerings and is gently spreading himself on it: the priest is already ready to immolate her ... » (Ep. I, pages 752-753).
«How many times - Jesus told me a moment ago - you would have abandoned me, my son, if I hadn't crucified you». «Under the cross one learns to love and I do not give it to everyone, but only to those souls who are dearest to me». (Ep. I, p. 339). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
TWELFTH STATION: Jesus dies on the cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «The eyes half closed and almost extinguished, the mouth half open, the chest, previously panting, now weakened almost completely stopped beating. Jesus, adored Jesus, may I die beside you! Jesus, my contemplative silence, beside you dying, is more eloquent ... Jesus, your pains penetrate my heart and I abandon myself next to you, the tears dry on my eyelash and I moan with you, for the cause that to this agony he reduced you and for the intense infinite your love, which subjected you to so much! (Ep. IV, pages 905-906). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
THIRTEENTH STATION: Jesus is deposed from the cross.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «Represents to your imagination Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and a hundred times kissing his side:“ This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this' is the heart of my soul; nothing will ever separate me from his love ... "(Ep. III, p. 503)
"May the Blessed Virgin obtain for us love on the cross, for sufferings, for sorrows and she who was the first to practice the gospel in all its perfection, in all its severity, even before it was published, obtain for us as well she herself gives us the urge to come immediately to her. " (Ep. I, p. 602) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
FOURTEENTH STATION: Jesus is placed in the sepulcher.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «I aspire to the light and this light never comes; and if at times even a faint ray is seen, which happens too rarely, it is precisely that it rekindles in the soul the desperate desires to see the sun shine again; and these longings are so strong and violent, that very often they make me languish and grieve with love for God and I see myself on the verge of going havoc ... There are then certain moments that I am assaulted by violent temptations against the faith ... From here all still arise those thoughts of despair, of distrust, of despair ... I feel my soul breaking from pain and an extreme confusion pervades everything ». (Ep. I, pages 909-910). Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...
FIFTEENTH STATION: Jesus rises.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you ...
From the writings of Padre Pio: «They wanted the rules of a rigorous justice that, risen, Christ would rise ... glorious to the right of his heavenly Father and to the possession of the eternal joy, which he proposed was in supporting the bitter death of the cross. And yet we know very well that, for the space of forty days, he wanted to appear resurrected ... And why? To establish, as St. Leo says, with such an excellent mystery all the maxims of his new faith. He therefore repeated that he had not done enough for our building if, after rising, he did not appear. … It is not enough for us to rise again in imitation of Christ, if in his imitation we do not appear resurrected, changed and renewed in spirit ». (Ep. IV, pages 962-963) Pater, Ave.
Holy Mother, I pray that the Lord's wounds ...