Look at Him as He goes along, with Body bent double, with knees all of a tremble, dripping with Blood; and so painful is it to Him to walk, that at every step He seems ready to die. O my Jesus! O My people, what have I done to thee? But Thou didst rise again the third day. And he saith to them: Behold the Man. As I wrote, I tried to look at these mysteries through Mary’s eyes. Thus Thou wilt cause SS. But He turns to them, saying: "Weep not for Me, Who am innocent, but weep for yourselves and for your children." Roman scourges would tear away flesh and the victim would lose blood, weakening him for crucifixion. Thus also a learned author, who wrote the life of Jesus Christ, says, "There were His friends, who watched Him from afar; but the Holy Virgin, the Magdalen, and another Mary stood close to the Cross, with John; wherefore Jesus, seeing His mother and John, spoke to them the words above mentioned. 44 And he that betrayed him, had given them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; lay hold on him, and lead him away carefully. Consider small “scourges” to suffer for love of Christ. but you gave me gall and vinegar to drink. Prayer Grant that I may love Thee always; and then do with me what Thou wilt. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum At the Cross her station keeping, Station 10: Jesus is Stripped of His Garments. By the Cross with thee to stay, I beseech Thee, by the merits of the pain Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy Cross, to give me the necessary help to carry mine with perfect patience and resignation. First Sorrowful Mystery: The Prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Olives. My Jesus, laden with sorrows, I weep for the offences I have committed against Thee, because of the pains they have deserved, and still more because of the displeasure they have caused Thee, who hast loved me so much. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. 35 And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God. Luke 1:28, 31, 38. 1; Luke xxii. * He trembled all over, his flesh was torn piecemeal, his tongue contracted, and the only refreshment he received was the blood which trickled from his head on to his parched lips. Meditation Mary, my mother, help me to be faithful to thy Son, who has so much loved me. For he ruined therein himself and all his descendants, and subjected them to sin, death, and hell. of that dying Son of thine. Scripture. Their eyes are blinded by hatred; ours, by the attractions of the world. Cornelious Lapide, The Great Biblical Commentary, Gospel of St Matthew Chapter 26, v. 36. Meditation on the Sorrowful Mysteries for the sick. O blasphemy and shocking thought! Prayer Matthew 27:32 And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take up his cross. Luke 23:26 Our Father... A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him. — Look at him, look at him…slowly. 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scabbard. Let me, therefore, rather displease men and all the world, than not please Thee, O Jesus. 27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. . And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. Pope Pius IX (1846-1878), Allocution Singulari Quadem, December 9, 1854: "For, it must be held by faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church, no one can be saved; that, Bull of Pope Boniface VIII. I beseech Thee, by Thy resurrection, make me rise glorious with Thee at the last day, to be always united with Thee in heaven, to praise Thee and love Thee forever. Further, he who has deserved Hell, and finds himself out of it, should say only, I will bless the Lord at all times. Having looked at the events in the life of Jesus, which are recalled in the first part of the Rosary, we now pass on to the second part, the five Sorrowful Mysteries. 5, pg. 10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. “[T]he Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus” (Catechism, 598). Jesus undergoes these most terrible humiliations to atone in a special way for sins of pride. But, abandoned by his friends and rejected by the crowd, it’s truer to think of him being alone. Rosary Meditations As part of the efforts of the St. John Paul II Society to promote devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, we have created these meditations on the mysteries of the Rosary. For the sins of His own nation, O most amiable Jesus! St. Matthew writes that Jesus uttered these words with a loud voice. Jesus “expresses the horror that death represented for his human nature” (Catechism, 612). They then seized the reed, and struck his head so violently that his eyes were filled with blood; they knelt before him, derided him, spat in his face, and buffeted him, saying at the same time, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ Then they threw down his stool, pulled him up again from the ground on which he had fallen, and reseated him with the greatest possible brutality. But he comforted Christ not by strengthening His weakness, but by praising His surpassing fortitude. And Isaiah gives us to understand that God is so urgent for our good, that when we pray He instantly hears us. 2. His flesh was torn by the scourges, His head crowned with thorns, and He had lost a great quantity of blood. In how short and spiritual a summary has he set forth the sacrament of unity! Jerome. 35 And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. 34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 34 And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? And all these did Christ expiate in a garden by the agony He there endured. 47 And some that stood there and heard, said: This man calleth Elias. Jesus sees the sins of all mankind, whose guilt He has taken upon Himself. O suffering Mother! But let us return to the holy Virgin, and examine more deeply the reason why Jesus called Mary woman, and not mother. . 29 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three days buildest it up again; 30 Save thyself, coming down from the cross. I will, therefore, meditate on Thy sufferings, and visit the stations of Thy Passion in company with Thy sorrowful Mother and my guardian angel, with the intention of promoting Thy honor and saving my soul. fac me tecum plangere. See also more on veiling here. Their looks become as arrows to wound those hearts which loved each other so tenderly. Below each title is a link to the full meditations of the mystery. 7 And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder. The Agony in the Garden – Jesus prays in Gethsemane on the night before his death.. Scripture. You are urged to say these prayers daily and to promulgate this prayer on a continuous basis, so that others may share in this blessing. Quis est homo qui non fleret, After this…can you ever fear penance?” The crowning of thorns. But Thou, O Lord, remove not Thy help to a distance from Me; look towards my defense. What evil has he done?” They only shouted the louder, “Crucify him.”  So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged, handed him over to be crucified. 2: "My people....", 1: I raised you to the height of majesty, ", Denis the Carthusian writes that in the Passion of Jesus Christ the breast of Mary was filled with the Blood which flowed from His Wounds, in order that with it she might nourish her children. For after this consolation from the Father by the angel, the agony of Christ seems to have passed away, and He appears to have prayed no more but to have prepared bravely for death. [Hebrews 5: 7], Further, this abandonment of Jesus Christ was the most dreadful suffering in all His Passion; for we know that after suffering so many bitter pangs without complaining, He lamented over this; He cried with a loud voice, and with many tears and prayers, as St. Paul tells us. O innocent Jesus, having sinned, I am guilty of eternal death, but Thou willingly dost accept the unjust sentence of death, that I might live. mourning Him who mourned for me, To imitate Christ’s forgiveness is necessary for me, because those I am close with are by nature egotistical and prone to hurt me selfishly. Sooner or later we find our own Gethsemane. fuit illa benedicta, 8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall declare his generation? 34 And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? I yield my soul into Thy hands. Thou hast created me for Heaven; what, then, have I to do with the world? 398)  Some pray the Sorrowful Mysteries every day of Lent as a devotion. Begin by making an Act of Contrition and form the intention of gaining the indulgences, whether for yourself or for the souls in Purgatory. Therefore, when in meditation if one’s mind and heart are particularly found to be directed to God in charity or contemplation, the soul should remain there as long as God permits. Grant that I may love Thee always; and then do with me what Thou wilt. One condemned to death by crucifixion is forced to carry the cross to the place of execution. Had He, however, not taken them upon Himself, they would have plunged us into the abyss of Hell. [Ibid.] And he took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you laid not hands on me. Great comfort do these words bring to the dying at the moment of death, against the temptations of Hell, and their fears on account of their sins. ii, 20): "When Christ says 'Not what I will, but what Thou wilt' He shows Himself to have willed something else than did His Father; and this could only have been by His human heart, since He did not transfigure our weakness into His Divine but into His human will.". 2. THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES. He exercised faith when he said, When Thou comest into Thy kingdom; believing that Jesus Christ, after His death, would enter into His glorious kingdom. (Repeated throughout by Choir 2) Amen. Endure the cross for the joy that is offered Thee, as the future author and perfector of the faith of very many. in amando Christum Deum 5 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. 19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. How fretful and impatient, how full of complaints I am! And when he had tasted, he would not drink. After this, say the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be, five times, in honor of the Passion of Jesus Christ, to gain other indulgences granted those who recite them. Now it was the will of God that Christ should undergo pain, suffering, and death, not that these of themselves were willed by God, but for the sake of man's salvation. Apr 17, 2017 - A resource for praying the Rosary hand-in-hand with Mary. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak. Crucem tuam * adoramus, Domine: et sanctam resurrectionem tuam laudamus, et glorificamus: ecce enim propter lignum venit gaudium in universo mundo. was that Mother, highly blest, Arbor una nobilis: It was horrible for Mary to have to watch this; she would rather she were allowed to suffer it herself. arise, pray, lest you enter into temptation. 35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: for he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. and you pierced your Savior with a lance. fac, ut tecum lugeam. 13 He boasteth that he hath the knowledge of God, and calleth himself the son of God. AD 400.When we speak of within and without in relation to the Church, it is the position of the heart that we must consider, not that of the body. Jesus, arriving exhausted at the foot of Calvary, falls for the third time to the ground. Consider the violence with which the executioners stripped Jesus. Behold thy mother." 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them: Whom seek ye? * Sweet the nails and sweet the wood. 35 And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground; and he prayed, that if it might be, the hour might pass from him. It is easy to imagine Christ struggling in front of our admiring eyes. O queen of Martyrs, O advocate of sinners, help me always, and especially in the hour of my death! 56 Now all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Get these meditations in book form. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.” Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. [14] St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Seven Words Spoken by Jesus Christ on the Cross. This is what gave the soldiers their delight when they mocked him. Chapter 8:For just as, after the waters of the deluge, by which the old iniquity was purged—after the baptism, so to say, of the world—a dove was the herald which announced to the earth the assuagement of celestial wrath, when she had been sent her way out of the ark, and had returned with the olive-branch, a sign which even among the nations is the fore-token of peace; so by the self-same law of heavenly effect, to earth—that is, to our flesh—as it emerges from the font, after its old sins flies the dove of the Holy Spirit, bringing us the peace of God, sent out from the heavens where is the Church, the typified ark. O how sad and sore distressed 33 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him; and he began to fear and to be heavy. The Crucifixion – Jesus is nailed to the cross and dies. xiii, 5). Yet he did – to forgive. Is there one who would not weep, Grant that I may love Thee always; and then do with me what Thou wilt. Safe in Paradise with Thee. It was built by the command of God, in order that there might be no doubt that it was a symbol of the Church, which God has so constituted that all who enter therein through Baptism, may be safe from danger of eternal death, while such as are outside the Church, like those who were not in the ark, are overwhelmed by their own crimes. ), (Prayers Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be that are referenced below may be found in Latin with pronunciations and English translations here). They say all: Let him be crucified. For oil is the type of compassion; and as oil was in that spot pressed from the olives, so in His agony was the Blood of Christ pressed forth, with which we are refreshed as with oil, are anointed and are fed. Meditation: St. Alphonsus said: "So drained of Blood is He and wearied out with His torments …He can scarcely stand. SORROWFUL MYSTERIES The Agony in the Garden – conformity to God’s will. THIS WEBPAGE IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST HERE. Answer Me.” (Good Friday Reproaches). And St. Ambrose in a similar way writes, It is natural that we should see those we love before any others. This commandment have I received of my Father. I love Thee, Jesus my love; I repent of having offended Thee. First Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden. Suffrering did not come upon Christ unawares. You will resemble Him, if your enemies resemble His in their calumnies.” – Fr Ignatius, School of Jesus Christ Crucified. [Psalm 30: 6] And how much more ought not we to trust in Jesus Christ, Who has now completed our redemption? Eating and not getting quite full? 374-379] (Willis, The Teachings of the Church Fathers, p. 60).As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is with the chair of Peter. 18 Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst. She whispers “yes” knowing that her life is forever changed and possibly going to be mu… For whom, then, shall I henceforth live, if not for Thee, my Lord? [Psalm 21: 20] O my Jesus, through the merits of Thy desolate death, deprive me not of Thy help in that great struggle which, in the hour of my death, I must maintain with Hell. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. But Peter followed afar off. It is enough: the hour is come: behold the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. And he said to them, “Behold, the man!” When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. John 19:2 And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple garment. The disciples disobey Christ’s command not because they are “wicked” but because they give in to their desire for easy comfort. This was expressed by Origen, when he said, "Jesus said to Mary, Behold thy son, as if he had said, This is Jesus, Whom thou hast borne, for He who is perfected lives no more himself, but Christ lives in him. Weep thou also, for there is nothing more pleasing to Our Lord and nothing more profitable for thyself, than tears shed from contrition for thy sins. A former reporter in the Washington, D.C., area, he served as press secretary of the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman and spent 10 years as executive editor of the National Catholic Register newspaper and Faith & Family magazine. Holy Mother! ad palmam victoriae. I will take up my cross and follow Thee. 50 Then his disciples leaving him, all fled away. 5). At this moment Jesus, before breathing out His soul, placed before His eyes all the sacrifices of the old law [which were all figures of the sacrifice upon the Cross], all the prayers of the patriarchs, and all the prophecies which had been uttered respecting His life and His death, all the injuries and insults which it was predicted that He would suffer; and, seeing that all was accomplished, He said. He also prays God’s will be done. I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, my Supreme and Only Good. As in the Canticle, “I raised thee up under the apple tree: there was thy mother defiled: there was she violated that bare thee” (Cant. Seeing with each step Jesus from weakness was on the point of expiring and fearing He might die on the way, the soldiers force Simon of Cyrene to help carry Jesus’ Cross behind Him. She receives Him with unutterable tenderness and presses Him to her bosom close to her Immaculate Heart. His side becomes entry into the Church and is as the door to the Ark of Noah. Look at Him as He goes along, with Body bent double, with knees all of a tremble, dripping with Blood; and so painful is it to Him to walk, that at every step He seems ready to die. 37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. (Available for purchase in Latin and English here. 12 Then the band and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him. Consider how Jesus, after being thrown on the Cross extended His hands, and offered to His Eternal Father the sacrifice of His death for our salvation. The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. Nulla silva talem profert, Jesus Christ, crucified, have mercy on us! of the sole-begotten One. The Carrying of the Cross – Jesus struggles up Calvary with his own cross on his shoulders. 1st sorrowful mystery- The Agony of Jesus in the garden Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. Do this by Thy Passion, O Jesus. [Isaiah 30: 19] St. Augustine says that God is ever prepared to embrace penitent sinners. The crowd came forward and began to ask him to do for them as he was accustomed. Thank you Merridith for your Quick Meditations on Every Mystery of the Rosary. You, who are so attached to the world, henceforth despise it, that you may not perish with it. 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not lay hands on me. Yet all these prayers and tears were poured forth in order to teach us how much He suffered to obtain the Divine mercy for us; and to enable us at the same time to comprehend how dreadful a punishment it would be to a guilty soul to be driven from God, and to be deprived forever of His love, according to the Divine threat, I will cast them forth from My house, I will not further love them. 18 And they began to salute him: Hail, king of the Jews. No sooner did Sister Emmerich recommence the narrative of her visions on the Passion than she again became extremely ill, oppressed with fever, and so tormented by violent thirst that her tongue was perfectly parched and contracted; and on the Monday after Mid-Lent Sunday, she was so exhausted that it was not without great difficulty, and after many intervals of rest, that she narrated all which our Lord suffered in his crowning with thorns. [Galatians 3: 28] Thus, Jesus Christ and the faithful are one single body, because the head cannot be divided from the members, and these members are all spiritual children of Mary, as they have the same spirit of her Son according to nature, Who was Jesus Christ. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 12, 13). 22 And they bring him into the place called Golgotha, which being interpreted is, The place of Calvary. Wisdom 2:12 Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with transgressions of the law, and divulgeth against us the sins of our way of life. We believe in her firmly and we confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles [Sgs 6:8] proclaims: 'One is my dove, my perfect one. St. Leo writes that it was through this prayer of Christ that so many thousands of Jews were converted at the preaching of St. Paul, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles; whilst [says St. Jerome] God did not will that the prayer of Jesus Christ should continue without effect, and therefore at the very time he caused many of the Jews to embrace the faith. Never permit me to offend Thee again. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Matthew 27:22 Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? Implore this sorrowful Mother that she assist you in the hour of your death. [Osee 9: 15]. The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary are the second of the three traditional sets of events in the life of Christ upon which Catholics meditate while praying the rosary. I have provided this link to my non-Catholic family members to introduce to them the powerful prayer of the Holy Rosary. We’d like to open this first blog entry for Our Catholic Prayers with a special Rosary meditation on Christ’s Passion, given by our Lord Himself! Therefore, when, through inward passions, or the temptations of the devil, or the persecutions of men, we feel ourselves disturbed and excited to lose our patience, and to abandon ourselves to displeasing God, let ut cast our eyes on Jesus crucified, Who poured forth all His Blood for our salvation, and let us reflect that we have not yet poured forth one drop of blood for love of Him: Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Veronica, impelled by devotion and compassion, presents her veil to Jesus to wipe His disfigured face. Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Naturally was Mary the enemy of the serpent, because Lucifer was haughty, ungrateful, and disobedient, while she was humble, grateful, and obedient. And Thou, my Redeemer, since Thou hast died for me, permit me to love Thee; for I wish but Thee, and nothing more. He exercised penitence together with the confession of his sins, saying, We indeed justly; for we received the due reward of our deeds. Isaiah 63:2 Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress? His weakness was extreme, and the cruelty of His executioners was excessive, who tried to hasten His steps when He had scarcely strength to move. Persevere in your resolutions of reform and do not part from the cross; he who persevereth to the end shall be saved. The following Sorrowful Mystery Rosary meditations are ideas of intentions you can pray for as you pray for your spouse, your children, yourself, priests, the Church, and the world. Sister Lucia’s Rosary Meditations: The Sorrowful Mysteries. The Scourging at the Pillar – Christ is scourged by the soldiers at Pilate’s command. Rosary Meditations As part of the efforts of the St. John Paul II Society to promote devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, we have created these meditations on the mysteries of the Rosary. Rosary Reflections: The Sorrowful Mysteries While praying to the rosary takes time, practice and patience, these five reflections can help enhance vocal and mental prayer and make meditating easier. Otherwise; He says not, Let this cup pass away from Me, for that would be the speech of one who feared it; but He prays that it may pass not so as that He should be passed over, but that when it has passed from Him, it may go to another. 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