Try to penetrate into the anguished Heart of your mother when She stops before the courthouse of Pilate and remembers how the clamarous multitude demanded, with horrible shouts, the blood of Her Divine Son. Who else but Jesus can understand the feelings of Her Heart?
O Mary, I unite with Thine acts of reparation; offer them for me. Are they not my treasure before God? I detest my self-love, my frivolity and my lack of mortification, which are the cause of Thy sufferings and of the humiliations of Jesus. I now mercilessly condemn my evil inclinations and more particularly my predominant fault. O tender Mother! assist me with thy help and with the grace of Thy Son. Impress upon my heart Thy feelings of repentance and of love, that before the Tribunal of the Sovereign Judge, I may hear the sentence of the elect.
Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew, Of my Saviour Crucified!