Bring your open heart and unite it with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Be strengthened as you pray, and also strengthen the devout faithful, strengthen those just getting started, help those seeking the right road, and provide direction for those who are lost and travel along the road leading to perdition, the Way of Selfish Love.God is at work in you!
SACRIFICIAL PRAYER
Begin praying a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament in church just prior to Holy Mass.
As you begin praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary
with Jesus, the Lord begins the day's lesson, which continues
throughout the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
When the student soul is ready, the
Teacher appears.
God is so in love with us all!
It's early; the church is
dark and quiet. Begin by joining Jesus in the Garden.
THE 1ST SORROWFUL MYSTERY:
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
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Find rest for your weary soul by leaning on Jesus. Place your head over our Savior's most compassionate, merciful, and loving
Sacred Heart. Find comfort in His goodness while Jesus prays for the salvation and sanctification of the entire
human race.
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Find rest for your weary soul by leaning on Jesus. Place your head over our Savior's most compassionate, merciful, and loving
Sacred Heart. Find comfort in His goodness while Jesus prays for the salvation and sanctification of the entire
human race.
Jesus also prays to God our Father for each person individually; listen for your name as He prays for every one of us personally and uniquely.
Pray with Jesus in solitude; love Him and thank Him with all your heart.
"Jesus, here in the Garden as
You surrender Your life for us and Your Passion begins, I give myself entirely to You, pledge to
remain by Your side always, and promise to love and honor You all the days of
my life."
The Lord keeps a chalice in reserve within His
Sacred Heart just for you, and encourages you to drink often from this chalice filled
with His Precious Blood.
Jesus tells you to receive as much as you like, as often as you need to as He calls
you to "Ascend higher!"and draws you closer to Himself.
This is your recompense as Jesus summons you
to say to God in union with Him, "Father,
if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done”
(Luke 22:42).
THE 2ND SORROWFUL MYSTERY:
THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR
As Jesus is stripped of His
garments, drink from the chalice within His Sacred Heart to strengthen your heart while being stripped
of your former self and all that is not of benefit to your spiritual progression.
This process can be humiliating, confusing, alienating, costly, and overwhelming. Avail yourself of the Lord's Precious Blood often, by drinking from the chalice within Jesus' Sacred Heart (mystically, in an action of thought) and He will strengthen
you, purify you, and draw you so much closer to Himself.
As Christ is scourged at the
pillar, use your heart to wipe His Sacred Face and comfort the most gentle, loving, forgiving, humble, and sorrowful of Men. Offer Blessed Mother the consolation of your heart also.
Place your heart within the Sacred
Heart of Jesus and find Blessed Mother's is already there.
Your heart also finds the hearts of the devout faithful through all time there, and within the Divine chambers humble hearts gather, are unified, and find refuge. Each heart caresses within it a “Fiat!”
Within our Lord's Sacred Heart, each person's heart is nurtured, protected, purified, and transformed into His likeness.
"Sweet, gentle, and humble Jesus, make our hearts like unto Thine."
THE 3RD SORROWFUL MYSTERY:
THE CROWNING WITH THORNS
As the King of kings stands before
you bound, catastrophically injured, suffering, and crowned with thorns, take His Sacred Hands in your own. Join hands also with Blessed Mother. Place your unified hearts within your hands, and then make an act of surrender to God our Father in imitation of Christ and Blessed Mother.
The pressure caused by the beating of your unified hearts forces the Precious Blood of Jesus from the wounds in His Sacred Body.
One drop of this sacred elixir is enough to redeem the entire human race. Just one.
Look at Jesus and see how lavishly He loves us.
The devout faithful through all
time join you in this important expression of unity and shared sorrow for sin. Together, you make up the Mystical Body of Christ, and your hearts become powerful channels of God's grace for the massive conversion of sinners.
THE 4TH SORROWFUL MYSTERY:
THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS
You see Jesus incredibly weak and wounded, using all His remaining physical
and mental strength to drag the Cross to Calvary as He appeals to God our Father to help Him make it, so that He can be Crucified there for our sake.
Jesus wants to give absolutely everything of Himself that can possibly be given. He loves us that much.
Jesus' Mother asks God the Father to grant her suffering Son’s request, and He does.
You are an answer to their prayer, and take up the Cross along with Jesus and Blessed Mother. Together, you carry it to Calvary.
At the same time, Jesus and Blessed Mother help you carry your cross to Calvary, for God has heard your appeal for assistance also.
"No prayer is ever lost." ~ Saint John Vianney
You are an answer to their prayer, and take up the Cross along with Jesus and Blessed Mother. Together, you carry it to Calvary.
At the same time, Jesus and Blessed Mother help you carry your cross to Calvary, for God has heard your appeal for assistance also.
"No prayer is ever lost." ~ Saint John Vianney
The devout faithful through all
time join you and together, you all carry the Cross to Calvary and participate
as the Mystical Body of Christ in the salvation and sanctification of every
single person through all time.
Along the Way, the beating of Jesus' Sacred Heart is sustained by His great love for us and by having received our love in return, and pumps the Blood from His Sacred Body.Jesus pours His love and mercy upon us all, extravagantly.
The Sacred
Blood pouring forth from His injuries creates a mystical pathway that leads us to God. The devout faithful shed their blood along the Way of the Cross also, literally and/or mystically, and contribute to the path humanity must follow to be sanctified and obtain salvation.
Not only does this path lead souls to heaven, it also cushions the footsteps of those who travel on it through all time and space, including the devout faithful
and those seeking to become holy.
This pathway also extends outward, seeking lost souls that are bound by sin and travel on the wrong road, the road leading to their perdition. The sacrificial pathway actively searches for people traveling along the Way of
Selfish Love and guides them to the Way of the Cross, the Way of Sacrificial
Love, the Way to God and to heaven.
SACRIFICIAL LOVE
Sacrificial love is the most
powerful force in the universe. Sacrificial love is so strong that the
bonds formed by it cannot ever be broken, and the gates of hell cannot prevail
against it. Allow sacrificial love to bind your soul to God,
forever. He is so uniquely, individually, and personally in love with
you.
THE 5TH SORROWFUL MYSTERY:
THE CRUCIFIXION
This mystery is revealed to you more profoundly once the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has begun.During the Consecration, you see the Precious Blood of Christ pouring forth from the wounds on His Sacred Body as He is Crucified on the Cross above the altar. You see His Precious Blood flowing mystically outward from the chalice, and also through His channels including the celebrant and everyone in the congregation.
What an incredible sight!
Christ's Precious
Blood pours forth from the open hearts of every person in church in the measure
that each individual loves sacrificially, and to the degree to which the Lord has been given permission to operate within his/her soul.
During Holy Communion, you see His
Precious Blood mystically pouring forth from the open tabernacle.
You are also shown that Christ's
Precious Blood is streaming (mystically) from the confessional doors in the chapel.
The Lord's love and mercy are
absolutely pouring forth in torrents, seemingly from everywhere in the church,
covering and permeating everything and everyone and not stopping within the boundaries of the structure.
His love and mercy extend out into time and space in search of every single precious, immortal
soul.
"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
Together we make up the Mystical Body of Christ. We are God's family; we are a team. Go, Team! God is so in love with us all.
FACEBOOK APOSTLES
A recent post on Facebook: Have you hugged your cross today?
A recent post on Facebook: Have you hugged your cross today?
A response: Hug it, kiss it, and then kiss the
Sacred Face of the One who sent it and carries it with you.
The person responsible for the Facebook post is named Gabriella, and she responded: Picking mine up lovingly, while 'locking arms' with my
beloved sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus. +
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