God is so in love with us all.
DISCOVER OR REDISCOVER THE POWER OF HOLY HOUR
Perhaps one morning while you are praying a Holy Hour before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Child Jesus appears and stands on the pew right in front of you.
The adorable little Boy turns to face you, and He smiles at you.
Why has little Jesus come to you? The Divine Child has come because He loves you. He is also there to pray with you for the salvation and sanctification of all of humanity.
The small Boy from heaven says the following, just as He has said it to you before, expressing it with such simplicity and the pure love of a child: "I am going to grow up and die on a Cross for you, because I love you that much."
You and little Jesus join hands and begin praying for others while caressing their precious, immortal souls within your hands. Do you remember our grown up Jesus praying this way with you before? Intercessory Prayer While Holding Hands with Jesus.
Present those souls, along with their intentions, to His most Holy Mother who is the dispenser of God’s graces. After showering them with the love of God expressed through her maternal and immaculate heart, she returns them to the tiny Sacred Hands of little Jesus.
Hold the Divine Child in your arms and carry Him to the Cross at the altar. There, He places your intentions into His very own Sacred Heart, the Sacred Heart of adult Jesus hanging on the Cross.
PRAYING THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES WITH THE CHILD JESUS
Perhaps later you will return to the church to spend more time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
He is, after all, the Love of your eternal life.
It is the Lord's will that you pray the Sorrowful Mysteries together with the Christ Child while meditating on His Sacred Passion.
Jesus is pleased when we meditate on His Sacred Passion daily.
You and little Jesus hold hands and look into each others’ eyes while traveling along the Way of Sacrificial Love with adult Jesus as He suffers.
"With God, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26)."
Blessed Mother is there, also. As you travel along the Way of Sacrificial Love, she tends to her small Son and protects Him from harm as the fists fly, as the instruments of execution become visible, as the hostile mob passes, as people come and go, and as the Cross is carried to Calvary...
Begin by joining our Savior in a Garden.
The 1st Sorrowful Mystery ~ The Agony in the Garden
As Jesus prays a short distance from you by Himself, little Jesus holds your hands and the two of you hold the souls of those you are praying for in your joined hands.
He is so little, our Jesus.
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As adult Jesus prays and sheds tears of Blood while also sweating Blood, you go over to Him and wipe His Sacred Face.
Little Jesus has also cried tears of Blood while praying. You absorb the tears on His little Sacred Face using the hearts of those you are praying for, and the hearts of those who have become hardened.
Once these hearts come into contact with the small Face of Jesus, they soften.
Then, little Jesus absorbs your tears there in the Garden using the purificators of His priests. The Divine Child also absorbs your tears of compassion by using their hearts to absorb them.
The 2nd Sorrowful Mystery ~ The Scourging at the Pillar
You and little Jesus now stand at the pillar, right next to adult Jesus Who stands in our place. He is stripped of His garments and is about to receive the first brutal strike.
The Lord inspires you to meditate on the first Wound to His Sacred Body that should have been yours, the first debt Christ paid in particular for the sins committed within your relationships and associations.
Think about that for a moment...
Then, the Lord has you ask Him, “Jesus, which Wound was the first one inflicted on Your Pure and Sacred Body by my marriage? By my family? By my business practices? By my associations? By my charitable causes? By my friendships? By my parish? By my work for the Lord?... “
(Silence.)
Then, little Jesus has you place your patient suffering, mortification, good works, etc., within those wounds to offer reparation to God for those offenses.
The Lord shows you that He has transformed those Wounds into precious doorways which lead to our confessionals. The doors through which we enter to be forgiven by and reconciled with God and one another are closed to various degrees by our sin and defiance.But when we place our prayers, good works, and sacrifices in those Wounds, the doors are opened wider again.
They widen the doors to the confessionals for us and also for our spouses, families, associates, friends, parishes..., and for everyone.
The 3rd Sorrowful Mystery ~ The Crowning with Thorns
As our Jesus is crowned with thorns, you and little Jesus hold hands and pray while looking into each others' eyes. The Divine Child wears a little crown of thorns also, and bleeds from the Sacred Wounds in His small Sacred Head…you wear a crown of thorns as well, and compassionately tend to each others' injuries.
As we venerate the Sacred Face of our suffering Jesus and also the Sacred Face of the Child Jesus, He loves us so gently and lavishly in return.
Honor our Savior as the King of your heart every day, while praying with Him for the intentions of others.
The 4th Sorrowful Mystery ~ The Carrying of the Cross
As Jesus carries the Cross to Calvary, grab hold of It and carry the Cross with Him. As you do so, courageous little Jesus comes to your side to help carry it with you. Look into each others' eyes and as you do, see yourself visibly wounded all over your body from the mistreatment of other people throughout your life.
Little Jesus appears similarly wounded from the suffering He has endured while still so young.
The 5th
Sorrowful Mystery ~ The CrucifixionHold the Divine Child in your arms as you stand with Blessed Mother before the Cross on Calvary.
Study the Wounds on Christ’s Sacred Body, especially the ones caused by the sins committed within your relationships and associations.
As Jesus atones for them all, thank Him, praise Him, and make reparation for your sins and also for the sins of all those who have no remorse and do not make reparation.
Little Jesus and Blessed Mother help you take the hearts of others and use them to collect His Precious Blood and Sacred Tears as our Savior is Crucified on the Cross before you.
Collect Them with your heart also. Then take your heart, healed and made more perfect and more loving by the power of His sacrificial love, out into the world and continue living, loving, serving, and suffering in imitation of Christ and His most holy Mother.
God is at work in you. + + +
"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary,
Help of Christians,
and you will see what miracles are."
~ Saint John
Bosco
© Joseph Karl Publishing /Michele Bondi Bottesi
Images taken at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Church,
Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S.A. Parish Website
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THE POWERFUL DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS
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