Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries While Looking into Jesus' Eyes

Join Jesus in the Garden for another very special lesson on sacrificial love and every heart's longing.

God is so in love with you!

Make a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament and very briefly, yet very powerfully, experience praying in union with every person who has prayed through all time.

How good is your spiritual vision?  Spiritual Vision:  Who and What Do You See? written and audio. 
  

Perhaps the Lord will grant you a very personal understanding that when we take on His likeness and share in His suffering, we do so for the greater honor and glory of the Blessed Trinity and for the  salvation and sanctification of mankind. 

Don't stop there!  

There is still so much of God's love to discover and then keep rediscovering.  He is so in love with you!

"I AM ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW"

With God all things are possible, and He is a very skilled Teacher.  In fact, He is the very best Educator.

Are you one of His students?

The Lord wants you to be one of His very best students.

When the student soul is ready, our Teacher appears.

His lessons are very supernatural.

Today, Jesus has another very special lesson planned for you.

Why is it so special?

Because God loves you so much, He considers you worth dying for. +
  

APPROACHING THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES 

You meet Jesus in the Garden to pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary in union with Him.

Our Teacher never ignores a request for greater Divine intimacy.  He presents His Passion from yet another perspective, and His message is very personal.

This Teacher loves you so much He gave up everything for your education.
  

FIRST A REVIEW OF THE PROFOUNDLY CATHOLIC MATERIAL

Jesus begins by reviewing His previous lessons:   

* Our Savior accompanies every one of us through the Sorrowful Mysteries while encouraging us to kiss and venerate His Sacred Face:  Kissing the Sacred Face of Jesus, written or audio.  

* Jesus also showed us how to journey with Him through His Passion and Crucifixion while holding His Sacred Hands, having placed the souls of others in  them while praying for them:  Intercessory Prayer While Holding Hands with Jesus, written (audio coming soon).

* He showed us how to journey with Him through His Passion and Crucifixion while surrendering our wills to God in imitation of Him and His most holy Mother: Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary as a Means of Surrendering to God's Will, written or audio.

* Jesus showed us how to journey with Him through His Passion and Crucifixion with our hearts unified, and how to use our hearts and the hearts of others as sponges to console one another, show compassion, and intercede for others:  Meaningful Matters of Inseparable Hearts, written or audio. 

* The Lord also has every one of us experience many of His personal sufferings from His Passion and Crucifixion, and even suffering He endured for us throughout His life and then after His Death.

Which one have you shared with Jesus very intimately most recently?  Perhaps He has you share in the suffering from being rejected, the rejection of His Holy Family which began before He was even born, and the sorrow of having His love rejected through all time. 

Sweet and gentle Jesus, may we never reject You directly, or indirectly by rejecting others! 
  

MEDITATING ON CHRIST'S PASSION WHILE LOOKING INTO HIS EYES

Today's lesson begins in a Garden.  There, you meet Jesus Who is already suffering and praying for your salvation and the salvation of the entire human race.

He tells you that today, you will journey with Him through His Passion and Crucifixion as you look into each others' eyes.

Pray together with our suffering Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane, and express volumes and volumes of love, reverence, and praise to Him with every glance.

Hold hands with Jesus and look into each others' eyes as He is scourged at the Pillar...this is a reciprocal action because Jesus looks at each one of us in return with compassion for our suffering...share this deeply intimate moment with our Savior.

Look into each others' eyes as He is crowned with thorns, and kiss His Holy Face as His Sacred Blood flows down in streams of mercy extending outwards in search of sinners... as the confessional doors, the wounds from the thorns, are opened for humanity... and as they are opened even wider by the malice He endured while carrying the Cross to Calvary, as every soul is welcomed to share in His Passion to strengthen and deepen his/her union with Him, and participate in the salvation and sanctification of the entire human race...

Look into the eyes of our Savior as He carries the Cross...Once again He has you venerate His Most Holy Face...He also has you take the hearts of sinners in need of conversion and press them against His Sacred Face, and do this again as He hangs on the Cross during the Fifth Sorrowful Mystery...

Contact with His Sacred Blood flowing from the wounds on His Sacred Face and the wound in His Sacred Heart warms their frozen hearts...

May we meditate on Christ's Passion and Crucifixion, submit our wills to the Lord, and generously share in His suffering.

Let us look right into His loving eyes and be drawn by the heart into Divine intimacy as Jesus calls us by name and says, over and over and over again, "(Your name), I love you..."

HE COMES WHERE HE IS WELCOMED

Perhaps to conclude your time together with Jesus, He shows you His Holy Family going from place to place in Bethlehem just before He was born, hoping to find compassion and shelter, just one place where they would be welcome.

You are shown that each of the places they approached are our hearts;  Saint Joseph and Blessed Mother went to each one of our hearts hoping that the Divine Child would be welcomed there.    

FITTING STABLES

Lastly, you see the Holy Family with the newborn baby Jesus in the manger.  The place where they found refuge that night is within our hearts.  

When we welcome Jesus and His Family into our hearts, we provided them fitting shelter that night when it was so lacking.  

May we never send Jesus and His Holy Family away;  they seek and find refuge in humble hearts.

 

"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

To learn more about the Work of Reparation through the Devotion to the Holy Face,  
which our Lord, Jesus Christ called  "the most beautiful work under the sun,"   
visit:  Work of Reparation Through the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus

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