The heavy cross you freely chose to carry.
Like us, you lived through bitter times of dismay,
As in the garden as you shed blood and sweat,
you showed us all how we should pray each day.

        Thanks to the power of your resurrection,
       to bear life’s cross give us help and protection (X 3) 

Made just like us, physically weak and frail,
so that we then would understand you still more,
till you endured such horrid pain and torture,
the cruel beatings you ultimately bore.

       Thanks to the power of your resurrection,
       to bear life’s cross give us help and protection (X 3) 

A crown of thorns was placed upon your own head,
to make you thus an object of derision,
By folks of our ilk who shamed you deeply so,
and lashings dealt without an intermission.

       Thanks to the power of your resurrection,
       to bear life’s cross give us help and protection (X 3) 

A heavy cross they made you carry onward,
And you did so by faithfully obeying,
to show us thus that our own heartfelt sorrows
with sheer hope could still strongly go on swaying.

       Thanks to the power of your resurrection,
       to bear life’s cross give us help and protection (X 3) 

And on the heavy cross that man erected, through sufferings and insults so unkind, you did this by taking on our likeness, coming here just as you had in mind.

       Thanks to the power of your resurrection,
       to bear life’s cross give us help and protection (X 3)