God is so in love with us all!
"By being faithful to our Holy Hour, and letting nothing interfere with it, we use it as the sign and symbol of our victimhood." ~ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
UNITE YOUR VICTIMHOOD TO THE VICTIMHOOD OF OUR REDEEMER
As you begin making a Holy Hour during Eucharistic Adoration, Jesus immediately begins a new lesson as you pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
Jesus has you hold the Sacred Heart of His Infancy in your hands.
That moment is so beautiful it brings you to tears.
Jesus has you place your heart within your hands as well.
"Lord, what a loving Teacher you are. How much You care for each one of us."
And so you cradle the Sacred Heart of our Infant Savior along with your own heart in your hands as you pray.
Jesus has more hearts for you to hold; He places the hearts of all the Holy Innocents in your hands as well.
You cradle these little hearts so carefully in your hands as they rest against your own heart.
Lastly, Jesus gives you the Immaculate Heart of His Most Holy Mother and places It in your hands.
WOUNDED HEARTS
As you continue praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the Lord shows you that His little Sacred Heart is impaled by a nail.
You see that Blessed Mother's Immaculate Heart and the hearts of the Holy Innocents are impaled by swords.
Then you are shown that your heart is impaled by a nail just like the Sacred Heart of Baby Jesus.
PRAYING THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES WHILE HOLDING THESE WOUNDED HEARTS
Begin by bringing these hearts into a Garden.
Jesus anticipated your arrival and you join Him in prayer as His Passion begins.
THE FIRST SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
As you kneel beside our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus looks into your eyes and takes your hands in His Sacred Hands.
It is one of the most loving encounters you have ever had in your life.
How gentle and caring Jesus is; we are loved and valued beyond measure. Together, you and Jesus shed tears of blood as you pray.
As these tears fall from His Sacred Face and yours, they land upon the hearts within your hands, which now includes the hearts of all those you are praying for.
Be sure to include every soul through all time.
Jesus is showing you how to become a powerful channel of God's grace for other people.
Just imagine the care they are receiving, being prayed over by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane as He sheds tears of His Sacred Blood over them, while the sacrificial love of martyred children through all time combines with the sacrificial love of Jesus and Blessed Mother.
All that love is combined with your merits, and love absolutely pours forth upon the precious hearts held so carefully in your hands.
When you and Jesus have concluded this mystery, it is time for Him to depart from the Garden and be taken into custody.
Before Christ rises from prayer you kiss His Sacred Face, look into His majestic eyes, and say to Him with all your heart, "Jesus, thank You."
Then you unite the submission of your will and all your efforts and merits to those of Christ and Blessed Mother, Who offer everything to God the Father for the salvation and sanctification of the entire human race.
THE SECOND SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR
As Jesus submits His Sacred Body to the brutal scourging at the pillar, you continue holding the Sacred Heart of the Christ Child, the Immaculate Heart of Blessed Mother, the hearts of the Holy Innocents, your heart, and the hearts of all those you are praying for in your hands.While carefully cradling every heart, you open your hands to expose the hearts of all those you are praying for.
As Jesus' Sacred Flesh and Blood project out into time and space, sowing the seeds of faith, you cry mystical tears of blood which fall upon the precious hearts in your hands.
You have allowed God to use you as a tremendous channel of grace for the massive conversion of sinners.
Jesus' Precious Blood lands upon them also. One drop of His Precious Blood is enough to ransom the entire human race.
Clearly, Jesus loves us very extravagantly.
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.
Christ's sacrificial love is present in His Precious Blood and in His Sacred Tears. It is present in the tears of our Blessed Mother, and also in your tears. Together, all the sacrificial love in all these tears land on the hearts in your hands and becomes the glue that binds the souls you pray for to God, forever.
SO MUCH LOVE AND MERCY SO FREELY GIVEN
As you conclude this mystery and the scourging ends you say to our Lord who is beaten beyond recognition, "Thank You, Jesus. I love You."
The tears you shed for Him land on His tiny Sacred Heart in your hands, and they console Him.
We cry so many tears in this life for so many different reasons. Let us shed more than a few for our suffering Lord.
THE THIRD SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CROWNING WITH THORNS
As Christ is crowned with thorns you bow before Him with reverence and submission, still holding all those precious hearts in your hands.You continue praying and shed more tears of sacrificial love. Then, all of a sudden, you see a channel open!
This channel originates from God the Father and it passes through our suffering Lord, then through you, into your hands.
Grace is absolutely pouring through this channel upon the hearts of all those you pray for who are being caressed within.
You are absolutely astounded and delighted to see that the supernatural graces then pour forth from those hearts you pray for, because they have also transformed into channels of grace.
So many channels, so much grace!
So much of God's love pouring out upon all mankind!
As this mystery concludes, you thank our suffering Lord while cradling His Infant Heart so close to you within your hands.
THE FOURTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS
As our catastrophically injured and suffering Lord carries the Cross along the Way of Sacrificial Love, you join the Sacred Procession headed to Calvary and shout ahead to Him, "Jesus, I will follow You all the way to heaven!"
In your hands you hold the Sacred Heart of Baby Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Blessed Mother, the hearts of all the Holy Innocents, your own heart, the hearts of all those you are praying for, and now also the hearts of all those who will be affected by the sacrificial love pouring forth from all those you have prayed for.
God's love cannot be contained, and His love knows no bounds.
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen" (Corinthians 13:7-8).
God's love is timeless, limitless, priceless, and miraculous!He is so in love with us all.
"No prayer is ever lost." ~ Saint John Vianney
As Jesus struggles with all His might to drag the Cross to Calvary so that He can be crucified there for our sake, the Sacred Heart of Infant Jesus being cradled within your hands pours forth even more love with every effort, as Christ exhausts Himself and holds nothing back.
Love and graces absolutely pour forth from our Savior upon all the priceless hearts you hold in your hands.
As an act of veneration and reparation, you adore the Most Holy Face of Jesus along the Way of the Cross.
THE FIFTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CRUCIFIXION
You stand with Blessed Mother on Calvary at the foot of the Cross.
Jesus pours over all His holiness.
As sacrificial love absolutely gushes forth from the Sacred Body of Jesus onto the precious souls in your hands, you thank Him with all your heart.
You also pray with complete confidence for the salvation and sanctification of every single soul through all time.
Then, at the foot of the Cross with Blessed Mother by your side, you renew your vows.
"Jesus, this is my body, which is given up for You.
I love You, and give myself completely to You without holding anything back.
I promise to love You in good times and in bad, for poorer, in sickness and in health.
Jesus, I trust in You, and promise to love and honor You, all the days of my life."
MAKE HIS HEART YOUR HOME
As you conclude praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, you kiss the Sacred Feet of Jesus as He hangs crucified on the Cross before you.
His Sacred Blood is on your lips and Jesus and Blessed Mother inspire you to kiss the precious and priceless hearts cradled in your hands.
Then you return the Sacred Heart of Baby Jesus to His Most Holy Mother and after doing so, hand her the hearts of everyone else.
Our Mother then takes the precious hearts of all of her children and places them in the Sacred Heart of her Son through the lance wound in His side.
God is so in love with us all.
Don't ever just be Catholic; be PROFOUNDLY Catholic! There is so much more of God's love to discover and then keep rediscovering.
"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary, Help of Christians,
and you will see what miracles are."
~ Saint John
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THE POWERFUL DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS
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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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God is at work in you!!
