Saturday, March 30, 2013

A Holy Saturday Visit to Jesus' Tomb

Share very valuable moments with the Sacred Body of Jesus, and with Blessed Mother, inside the Tomb.  It's just you and Them;  now what?


If you haven't done this already you still can, because God is not limited to time and space and so our efforts aren't, either.

Spend time venerating the Sacred Body of Jesus inside the tomb the day after He was taken down from the Cross following His bitter Passion and Crucifixion.

Jesus lies in the tomb; His Body has been absolutely annihilated for our sake.  Draw near to Your Savior;  reach for His Hand, unwrap it, and then gently place It in your own.

Study the Hand of your Savior, which is pierced through but also so horrifically mangled and covered with wounds from the scourging the actual number of injuries is impossible to distinguish.  How grateful you are to Jesus as You hold His hand.  Without even thinking, you bring His Hand to your face and kiss It reverently. You don't ever want to let It go.  

In that profound moment, kneel reverently before Jesus' Sacred Body.  Once again, take His battered and pierced Hand in your hands, which hold the souls of all of humanity, and place them within the Wound that was created by the nail.

Then, carefully and lovingly seal every precious, immortal soul within the Wound by closing your hands around Christ's Hand.

Blessed Mother joins you, and places her hands over yours.

Together for a very precious time, pray for every soul ever created and yet to be created.

Strengthened by Their touch, vow to live, love, serve, and suffer in imitation of Jesus and Blessed Mother, and promise to  use your hands to continue Their work.    

After a while, you may feel compelled to rise and sit beside the Sacred Body of Jesus.

Again, take hold of His Hand.  Gently touch the raised Forearm, which suffered such tortures, with tenderness while meditating on His Passion.

Once more, enclose the souls of all mankind within Jesus' Hand as you take It in both of
yours.

Blessed Mother then takes her caring hands and seals the embrace of her two children.    

The moment is very still, so touching, profound, incredibly peaceful, meaningful, and very, very loving.

Make or renew your vow to give yourself entirely to God the Father, just as Jesus and His Most Holy Mother did.

Lower your head to Their hands;  shower Them with kisses and grateful tears as you whisper resolutely, "F I A T."

Don't ever just be Catholic;  be PROFOUNDLY Catholic.

God is at work in you!!

What happened the next day:

© Joseph Karl Publishing/Michele Bondi Bottesi


Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church 
in the Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.



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