He is so in love with you!
Before you begin praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, ask Jesus to bless your mouth, which will soon venerate and kiss His Sacred Wounds as you travel with Him through His Passion and Crucifixion to your redemption.
PRAYING THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
AS A MEANS OF SURRENDERING YOUR WILL TO THE DIVINE WILL
This method of meditating on Christ's Passion reminds us of the inseparability of the Blessed Sacrament and Sacramental Confession, and of the necessity to receive both, often.
THE FIRST SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
Begin by walking into a Garden.
Surrender your will to God's will in imitation of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. Kneel next to Jesus and unify your hands and your hearts as you pray that God's will be accomplished for the salvation and sanctification of the entire human race.
Pray for specific people and also pray for everyone through all time. Be sure to show Jesus some compassion.
THE SECOND SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR
Begin by joining Christ at the pillar.
Stand right by our Savior's side and as He is scourged, ask Him to make known which wound on His Sacred Body is the first dept He paid for your sins personally.
The Lord shows you that Wound, and then His boundless love and mercy transform It into your own personal confessional. Enter often, and accept God's lavish love, mercy, and graces. Accept them for yourself and also on behalf of everyone else.
As that Sacred Wound is opened, you are splattered with His love and mercy as they pour forth upon humanity. Remember, just one drop of His Precious Blood was enough to save the entire human race, and the least of His torments was enough to redeem us all. Yet He so generously and lavishly offered Himself to the Father for us without holding anything for Himself in reserve.
Just prior, at the Last Supper, Jesus had said to us all, "This is My Body, which is given up for you."
Surrender your will to God in imitation of Christ at the Pillar.
Say to Jesus in return, "This is MY body, which is given up for YOU."
Say to Jesus in return, "This is MY body, which is given up for YOU."
The Lord's reward? He transforms you into His likeness. The side of your face begins mystically bleeding, and you become a living Devotion to the Most Holy Face of Jesus.
THE THIRD SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CROWNING WITH THORNS
Begin by joining Jesus while He is mocked, as a crown of thorns is prepared for His Sacred Head.
Just before Christ is crowned with thorns, He raises His Sacred Hand and again blesses your mouth. You feel His Sacred Fingers brush across your lips. O most beautiful, sublime moment of Divine intimacy! What gentle and loving Hands You have, Jesus.
As the Love of your eternal life is mocked, covered with malice, and crowned with thorns, you are inspired by grace to imitate Jesus' humility, meekness, patience, gentleness, kindness, and courage.
As the thorns cut into His Sacred Head you see Christ's Precious Blood flowing from the wounds as precious waterfalls of mercy and redemption. These wounds also form gateways of mercy leading to more confessionals.
The scene shares similarities to the image of Christ's Precious Blood mystically flowing from the open confessional doors, forming a mystical pathway leading to mercy that extends outwards in pursuit of all sinners.
Our crowned King comes to you and kisses the mystical wound on your face. As He does so, you are shown how your blood, which is actually His Sacred Blood, makes its way from His Lips to His Tongue where it reposes there in the same way His Precious Body and Blood repose on your tongue when you receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
In this way, you are mystically unified with Jesus separately after having been unified with Jesus in the Eucharist as one during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that morning.
Since the Blessed Sacrament and Sacramental Confession are inseparable, you are also shown the following parallel. When we submit our wills to the Lord's will in the confessional, venerate Him on the Cross, kiss His Sacred Wounds, and seek His pardon for our sins, He forgives us and then kisses our mystical wounds in return. At that time, the same transfer of His Sacred Blood takes place mystically, from Him to us and from us to Him.
THE FOURTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS
Begin by joining Jesus as He accepts the Cross and begins the agonizing journey along the Way of Sacrificial Love.
Grab hold of the Cross also and submit your will to God's will. While you carry the Cross in imitation of Christ, Blessed Mother appears and takes hold of the beam also. Then, all the occupants of heaven appear and also grab hold of the beam.
While the Cross must still be carried to Calvary, their help makes It lighter, easier to manage, and more possible to carry.
THE FIFTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CRUCIFIXION
Begin by joining Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross.
As you stand near our Crucified Savior, surrender your will to God in imitation of Christ. Trust the Lord, without concern for the personal cost.
Just how much does the salvation and sanctification of precious, immoral souls cost?
Jesus shows you that it cost Him everything. He also shows you that it doesn't matter how much they cost, only that they are purchased, because they are priceless.
By submitting your will to God's will and through the reception of the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, you are being transformed into Christ and your precious blood is being transformed into His Precious Blood, into mercy, love, salvation, and sanctification for all men.
As Jesus hangs on the Cross you again venerate and kiss His Sacred Body and His Sacred Wounds, which are to us respectively the Blessed Sacrament and open confessionals. You have His Precious Blood on your lips, just one drop of which was enough to save the entire human race.
THE POWER OF SACRIFICIAL LOVE
Sacrificial love is the most powerful force in the universe. Sacrificial love is so powerful that the bonds formed by it cannot ever be broken. Sacrificial love is so strong that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.
Allow sacrificial love to bind your soul to God, forever. He is so in love with you!
Discover and then keep rediscovering the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Pro-Life Church, the majestic full expression of Christianity as established by its very Founder, Jesus Christ.
"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary, Help of Christians,
and you will see what miracles are."
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Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church,
Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A. Parish Website
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