Friday, January 10, 2014

Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries for Unrepentant Sinners (3-70)

Another very profound lesson from the One Who loves us more than we can ever imagine.




Are you aware of all the many ways you can pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary with our Lord while meditating on His Sacred Passion?  Ask our Lord to show you some!  When the student soul is ready, the Teacher appears, and He is very, very nice.

Be sure you meditate on Christ's Sacred Passion, and on your Redemption, every single day.  It is a very powerful and important way to grow closer to your Savior, the Love of your eternal life, while growing in holiness and obtaining much needed graces for your own soul and for others.

Our Lord loves us lavishly, He loves us absolutely extravagantly.  Don't ever just be Catholic;  be PROFOUNDLY Catholic!  There is so much more of God's love to discover and then keep rediscovering.  His love for you is limitless, and miraculous! 


All the Lord's other lessons for you, on Joseph Karl Publishing's page devoted to Meditating on Christ's Passion. 

THE FIRST SORROWFUL MYSTERY:  THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN

As you pray with Jesus during His agony in the garden, our Lord presents you with a cloth.

He gives it to you and instructs you to touch it to His Holy Face and absorb just one drop of His Precious Blood.

So you take the cloth from Jesus and decide on one drop of His Blood that runs down His cheek, and gently press the cloth against His Holy Face.

What a moment.

Then Jesus has you take the cloth and make the Sign of the Cross over the eyes of two people He loves very much and whose precious, priceless, and immortal souls are in grave jeopardy because they have not repented of having committed mortal sins.  

Jesus has you perform this merciful and grace-filled action to help lift the veils from their eyes and rescue them from the firm grip of the demon, who has worked  very hard with this couple to keep them blind to their immorality so he can claim their souls for all eternity.

Our good Shepherd has come in search of His lost sheep, and Jesus is asking His devout faithful to help Him in the rescue effort.

THE SECOND SORROWFUL MYSTERY:  THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR

As Jesus' Sacred, pure, and holy Body is brutally scourged without mercy at the pillar, Jesus again presents the cloth to you and asks you to not only absorb His Precious Blood, but to also wipe His Holy Face with it.

Imagine that moment.

After that is accomplished, Jesus has you take the cloth and make the Sign of the Cross with it over the souls of all unrepentant sinners through all time, which you are holding in your hands at Christ's request while praying the Holy Rosary. 


THE THIRD SORROWFUL MYSTERY:  THE CROWNING WITH THORNS

You continue to use the cloth to wipe the Sacred and Holy Face of our Redeemer and King as Jesus is crowned with thorns, still holding the souls of unrepentant sinners in your hand as you do so.


THE FOURTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY:  THE CARRYING OF THE CROSS

Jesus has you wipe His Holy Face with the cloth as He carries the Cross to Calvary, in imitation of Saint Veronica.  As you meditate on Christ's Passion, He is transforming you into His likeness, into a living representation of the Devotion to His Holy Face.

You start to wonder how Jesus is going to conclude this lesson. 

THE FIFTH SORROWFUL MYSTERY: THE CRUCIFIXION

Before concluding this lesson, Jesus reminds you to ask His Most Holy Mother to make up for whatever you are lacking in your prayers and good works,

He also reminds you of the importance of your being humble, being willing to submit to God’s will entirely, loving sacrificially, and holding absolutely no bitterness in your heart against anyone ever. 

Jesus wants to use you as a tremendous channel of grace for all souls through all time.  Let Him!

The Lord tells you to combine your frequent reception of the Sacraments, prayers and good works with His and Blessed Mother’s sacrifices  and those of the devout faithful in our time, and appeal to all the occupants of heaven for their help, including the Most Holy Trinity, Blessed Mother, all the angels, saints, martyrs, Holy Innocents, and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. 

That’s profoundly Catholic firepower!

So as you pray the last Sorrowful Mystery, having wiped the Holy Face of our Savior as He is crucified on the Cross for us, Jesus has you take all the souls of unrepentant sinners through all time which you still hold in your hands and wrap them in that very special cloth that had wiped His Holy Face throughout His Passion and contains within its fibers His redeeming, loving, and merciful Precious Blood.

You wonder what Jesus is going to have you do with them. 

Jesus has already instructed you to think big when asking for graces for others.

He surprises and delights you by having you take that cloth holding all those precious, priceless, and immortal souls and place it in the manger, right on top of His tiny Sacred Body.

 Small is powerful;  believe it!      

The Lord wants you to think big for other people, and He also wants you to think Small.

God is at work in you!

"By My Holy Face you will work wonders."  Jesus to Sr. Mary of St. Peter
 


"Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary, Help of Christians, 
and you will see what miracles are."  
~St. John Bosco




   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,"    
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God is at work in you!!