1. Vexilla Regis prodeunt:
Fulget Crucis mysterium,
Qua vita mortem pertulit,
Et morte vitam protulit.
3. Impleti sunt quae concinit
David fideli carmine,
Dicendo nationibus:
Regnavit a ligno Deus.
Amen.
6. O crux ave, spes unica,
hoc passionis tempore (vel mundi salus et gloria)
Piis adauge gratiam,
Reisque dele crimina.
Amen.
===I. Jesus wird zm Tode verdammt.===
Innocens ego sum a sanguine justis hujus.
===II. Jesus träbt sein Kreuz.===
Ave, ave crux.
===III. Jesus fällt zum ersten Mal.===
Jesus cadit.
Stabat mater dolorosa
juxta crucem lacrymosa,
dum pendebat filius.
==IV. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter.==
==V. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen.==
==VI. Sancta Veronica.==
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden,
Voll Schmerz und voller Hohn,
O Haupt, zum Spott gebunden
Mit einer Dornenkron’,
O Haupt, sonst schön gezieret
Mit höchster Ehr’ und Zier,
Jetzt aber höchst schimpfieret;
Gegrüßet sei’st du mir!
==VII. Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal.==
==VIII. Die Frauen von Jerusalem.==
Nolite flere super me, sed super vos ipsas flete et super filios vestros.
==IX. Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal.==
==X. Jesus wird entkleidet.==
==XI. Jesus wird ans Kreuz geschlagen.==
Crucifige!
==XII. Jesus stirbt am Kreuze.==
Eli, Eli, lamma Sabacthani
In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.
Consummatum est.
O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid,
Ist das nicht zu beklagen?
Gott des Vaters einigs Kind
wird ins Grab getragen.
==XIII. Jesus wird vom Kreuz genommen.==
==XIV. Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt.==
Ave crux, spes unica,
mundi salus et gloria
Auge piis justitiam
Reisque dona veniam!
Amen. Ave crux.
English translationJ. M. Neale, 1851
The royal banners forward go;
The cross shines forth in mystic glow
Where He in flesh, our flesh who made,
our sentence bore, our ransom paid;
Fulfilled is all that David told
In true prophetic song of old;
Amidst the nations, God, saith he,
Hath reigned and triumphed from the tree.
O Cross, our one reliance, hail!
So may thy power with us avail
To give new virtue to the saint
And pardon to the penitent.
Amen.
First station: Jesus is condemned to death
"I am innocent of this just man's blood."
Second station: Jesus bears his cross
Hail, hail Cross.
Third station: Jesus falls the first time
Jesus has fallen!
Fourth station: Jesus greets his holy mother
Fifth station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross
Sixth station: Saint Veronica
O sacred Head, now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, Thine only crown;
O sacred Head, what glory,
what bliss till now was Thine!
Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine.
Seventh station: Jesus falls the second time
Eighth station: The women of Jerusalem
"Weep not for me, but for yourselves and your children"
Ninth station: Jesus falls the third time
Tenth station: Jesus is stripped
Eleventh station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
"Crucify him!"
Twelfth station: Jesus dies on the cross
"Into thy hands I commend my spirit"
"It is achieved"
O deepest woe
Thirteenth station: Jesus is taken down from the cross