Fifteenth Station: Jesus is Raised from the Dead.

Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.
All: Because by your holy cross You have redeemed the world.

Leader: With the guards at the tomb, we stand aghast as the women run behind the stone and find you gone. They run out screaming in delight and terror as the life that you always intended for us dawns.

We sneak into the chamber to find the linens, neatly folded where you lay. At once we are overjoyed and terrified. Overjoyed because we know the truth now, and we can never turn away from it. Terrified because we know how we treated you, the Truth, and the world may do the same to us.

Silence

All: Dearest Jesus, today, at the tomb, we begin our journey to Galilee, where you said you’d meet us. By the power of your Holy Spirit, give us strength to shout the Truth every step of the Way.

Death and tomb, they cannot hold you!

Life you give, your life we bring to

Ev’ry child along the Way. 

* This closing may be omitted on Good Friday

source: www.preachingpeace.org