O Most Loving Jesus, I offer Thee the acts of adoration, of praise, of union and of supplication which Thy Holy Mother offered Thee in this Station.

Alas, we have allowed the devil to strip us of the robe of our innocence, and Jesus wishes to restore it to us at any cost. Behold your Redeemer in the dreadful torments which He now endures. They roughly tear off His garments, which have become encrusted in the wounds of His body; thus the sores are opened afresh and pieces of torn flesh adhere to the garments or our gentle Saviour. Ask yourself to what extent this inhuman treatment must have renewed the woes of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

'Behold' this Mother of Sorrows seems to say, 'what Jesus has paid in atonement for your exaggerated love of fashions and luxuries, for your vanity and immodesty in dress'.

O Mother, I beg Thy pardon for having so often made Thee sad by my vanity. Make me love that exterior modesty and simplicity which are so pleasing to Thee. Help us who are the children of Thy love to strip ourselves of our self-love, our self-will, our conceit, which destroy thy work in us and deprive our soul of its merits for Heaven. By Thy tears and by the wounds of Jesus, clothe us with the double garments of Thy virtues and riches, that we may appear with confidence before the Judgement Seat of Thy Son.

Holy Mother, pierce me through,In my heart each wound renew, Of my Saviour Crucified!