Sorrowful Mysteries 5: Crucifixion

Meditations on the Crucifixion
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Fifth Sorrowful Mystery
The Crucifixion
Jesus uttered a loud cry and said,
“Father, into thy hands, I commend my
spirit.” After he said this, he expired.

Fruit of the mystery: Perseverance
Forgiveness & Conversion of sinners.
(St. Louis de Montfort )

Stripping of garments

Nailing to the Cross

1.*Jesus is stripped of
his garments.
“My innocent Jesus, by
the torment You suffered
in being stripped of your
garments, help me to strip
myself of all attachment
for the things of the earth
that I may place all my
love in You who are so
worthy of my love.”
(St. Alphonsus Liguori)

El Greco, Christ is stripped of His Garments, 1577. Toledo Cathedral. Spain

 It was already the sixth hour, which corresponds to our noontime,
and the executioners, intending to crucify the Savior naked,
despoiled Him of the seamless tunic and of his garments. As the
tunic was large and without opening in front, they pulled it over
the head of Jesus without taking off the crown of thorns; but on
account of the rudeness with which they proceeded, they
inhumanly tore off the crown with the tunic. Thus they opened
anew all the wounds of his head. With heartless cruelty they again
forced it down upon his sacred head, opening up wounds upon
wounds. By the rude tearing off of the tunic were renewed also the
wounds of his whole body, since the tunic had dried into the open
places and its removal was, as David says, adding new pains to his
wound (Ps. 68, 27). Four times during the Passion did they despoil
Jesus of his garments and again vest Him. The first time in order
to scourge him at the pillar; the second time in order to clothe
Him in the mock purple; the third when they took this off in order
to clothe Him in his tunic; the fourth, when they finally took away
his clothes. This last was the most painful, because his wounds
were more numerous, his holy humanity was much weakened, and
there was less shelter against the sharp wind on mount Calvary; for
also this element was permitted to increase the sufferings of his
death-struggle by sending its cold blasts across the mount.
{Mary of Agreda)

2.**Christ is nailed to the cross
You have shown us,
Jesus, that forgiveness
is a great sign of love.
In the act of forgiving, we
claim nothing for
ourselves, but are
concerned only with the
good of the other.
Help us to take those
first selfless steps to
forgive those who have
hurt us.
Francisco Ribalta, Christ Nailed to the Cross, 1582, Hermitage. St. Petersburg.

Extraordinary description of the actual Cruxicifixion.
 In order to find the places for the auger-holes on the Cross, the
executioners haughtily commanded the Creator of the universe (O
dreadful temerity!), to stretch Himself out upon it. The Teacher of
humility obeyed without hesitation. But they, following their
inhuman instinct of cruelty, marked the places for the holes, not
according to the size of his body, but larger, having in mind a new
torture for their Victim. Presently one of the executioners seized
the hand of Jesus our Savior and placed it upon the auger-hole
while another hammered a large and rough nail through the palm.
 When they stretched out the other hand, they found that it did not
reach up to the auger-hole; for the sinews of the other arm had
been shortened and the executioners had maliciously set the holes
too far apart, as I have mentioned above. In order to overcome the
difficulty, they took the chain with which the Savior had been
bound in the garden, and looping one end through a ring around
his wrist, they, with unheard of cruelty, pulled the hand over the
hole and fastened it with another nail. Thereupon they seized his
feet, and placing them one above the other, they tied the same
chain around both and stretched them with barbarous ferocity
down to the third hole. Then they drove through both feet a large
nail into the Cross.

 Then they dragged the lower end of the Cross with the crucified
God near to the hole, wherein it was to be planted. Some of them
getting under the upper part of the Cross with their shoulders,
others pushing upward with their halberds and lances, they raised
the Savior on his Cross and fastened its foot in the hole they had
drilled into the ground. I must not omit mentioning another
barbarity inflicted upon the Lord as they raised Him: for some of
them placed the sharp points of their lances and halberds to his
body and fearfully lacerating Him under the armpits in helping to
push the Cross into position. At this spectacle new cries of protest
arose with still more vehemence and confusion from the multitude
of people. The Jews blasphemed, the kind-hearted lamented, the
strangers were astounded, some of them called the attention of the
bystanders to the proceedings, others turned away their heads in
horror and pity; others took to themselves a warning from this
spectacle of suffering, and still others proclaimed Him a just Man.
All these different sentiments were like arrows piercing the heart of
the afflicted Mother. The sacred body now shed much blood from
the nail wounds, which, by its weight and the shock of the Cross
falling into the hole, had widened. They were the fountains, now
opened up, to which Isaias invites us to hasten with joy to quench
our thirst and wash off the stains of our sins. (Mary of Agreda. The
Mystical city of God)

Forgiveness

The Good thief

3.**** “Father, Forgive them for they know not what
they do.” It is not in our power not to feel or to
forget an offense, but the heart that offers itself to the Holy
Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory
in transforming the hurt into intercession. (Catechism)

Robert Bailey. Forgive them. Bailey Art & Publishing Inc. Spruce Grove. Alberta.

3A. “Father, Forgive them for they know not what
they do.”
Jesus not only forgives but makes excuses for his
enemies. “Love your enemies, do good to those who
hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those
who abuse you.” (Lk. 6: 27-28)


3B “Father, Forgive them”
“My children, ask the Father to extend His salvation and
forgiveness to your enemies. Pray for those who abuse you,
or hurt you in any form. Ask the Father that they will also be
cleansed by the blood of Jesus.”


 As the wood of the Cross was the throne of majesty and the chair
of the doctrine of life, and as He was now raised upon it,
confirming his doctrine by his example, Christ now uttered those
words of highest charity and perfection: "Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do!" (Luke 23, 34.) This principle of
charity and fraternal love the divine Teacher had appropriated to
himself and proclaimed by his own lips (John 15, 12; Matth. 15, 44).
 He now confirmed and executed it upon the Cross, not only
pardoning and loving his enemies, but excusing those under the
plea of ignorance whose malice had reached the highest point
possible to men in persecuting, blaspheming and crucifying their
God and Redeemer.
 Such was the difference between the behavior of ungrateful men
favored with so great enlightenment, instruction and blessing; and
the behavior of Jesus in his most burning charity while suffering
the crown of thorns, the nails, and the Cross and unheard of
blasphemy at the hands of men. O incomprehensible love! O
ineffable sweetness! O patience inconceivable to man, admirable
to the angels and fearful to the devils! (Mary of Agreda. Mystical City of
God.)

 One day Blessed Angela of Foligno begged our Lord to let her
know by which religious exercise she could honour him best.
He appeared to her nailed to his cross and said,
 "My daughter, look at my wounds." She then realized that
nothing pleases our dear Lord more than meditating upon
his sufferings. Then he showed her the wounds on his head
and revealed still other sufferings and said to her,
 "I have suffered all this for your salvation. What can you
ever do to return my love for you?"
 How great must be the happiness and jubilation of the whole
heavenly court and what glory for our Blessed Lord himself to
see us here on earth meditating devoutly and lovingly on his
humiliations and torments and on his cruel and shameful death!
Is there anything that could touch our hearts more surely and
bring us to sincere repentance? (St. Louis de Montfort)

4.** “ Remember me ”
The good thief accepted his suffering and was saved. The bad thief
rejected the cross leading to his perdition. Suffering makes souls grow if
they accept it with love and submission but it is an occasion of perdition
for those who revolt against God. Sufferings are the pre-eminent graces
of God.

Titian. 1566. Christ and the Good Thief. Pinacoteca Nazionale

4A. “ Remember me ”
Bad thief: “Save thyself and us too, if thou art the Christ”
Good thief: “ Remember me when you come into thy kingdom.”
Jesus: “I promise you, this day you shall be with me in paradise.”

Titian. 1566. Christ and the Good Thief. Pinacoteca Nazionale

 One of the two thieves, called Dismas, became aware of
some of the mysteries. Being assisted at the same time
by the prayers and intercession of most holy Mary, he
was interiorly enlightened concerning his Rescuer and
Master by the first word on the Cross. Moved by true
sorrow and contrition for his sins, he turned to his
companion and said: "Neither dost thou fear God,
seeing that thou art under the same condemnation? And
we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our
deeds; but this Man hath done no evil." And thereupon
speaking to Jesus, he said: "Lord, remember me when
Thou shalt come into thy kingdom!" (Luke 23, 40.).
 In this happiest of thieves, in the centurion and in the
others who confessed Jesus Christ on the Cross, began to
appear the results of the Redemption. But the one most
favored was this Dismas, who merited to hear the second
word of the Savior on the Cross: "Amen, I say to thee,
this day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." (Mary of
Agreda)

Behold thy Mother
Words of the Queen on:
 I am your mother.

Words of Jesus on:
 Mistress of angels and men

5.*** “Woman, Behold thy son. This is your mother.”

“Live ever in deep
gratitude to Jesus for
having given you this last
gift of His, words that you
should never forget:
Behold your Mother.

Accept me into your life,
that I may be able to help
you…” (Gobbi)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Crucifixion, 1503, Munich.

5A. “Woman, Behold thy son. This is your mother.”
“Beneath the Cross, through
the will of my Son Jesus. I
became your Mother and of the
entire human race. I have
always been close to everyone
as a loving and sorrowful
mother. I have carried in my
heart the sufferings of all. I
have become the mother of all
sorrows. It is these sufferings
which are preparing the new
times, the rise of the new era. It
is the travail of the new birth.”
(Gobbi)

5B. “Woman, Behold thy son. This is your mother.”

“The Mother of Christ, who
stands at the very center of this
mystery---a mystery which
embraces each individual and
all humanity—is given as
mother to every single
individual and all mankind. The
man at the foot of the Cross is
John, ‘the disciple whom he
loved.’ but he is not alone.
Mary is the mother of mankind,
the mother of members of
Christ.” (Pope John Paul II)


 Jesus turned his loving gaze upon his afflicted Mother, who with
saint John was standing at the foot of the Cross. Speaking to both,
he first addressed his Mother, saying: "Woman, behold thy son!''
and then to the Apostle: "Beho1d thy Mother!" (John 19, 26.) The
Lord called Her Woman and not Mother, because this name of
Mother had in it something of sweetness and consolation, the very
pronouncing of which would have been a sensible relief. During
his Passion He would admit of no exterior consolation, having
renounced for that time all exterior alleviation and easement, as I
have mentioned above. By this word "woman'' he tacitly and by
implication wished to say: Woman blessed among all women, the
most prudent among all the daughters of Adam, Woman, strong
and constant, unconquered by any fault of thy own, unfailing in
my service and most faithful in thy love toward Me, which even the
mighty waters of my Passion could not extinguish or resist (Cant.
8, 7), I am going to my Father and cannot accompany Thee
further; my beloved disciple will attend upon Thee and serve Thee
as his Mother, and he will be thy son.

 “Beneath the Cross, through the will of my Son Jesus. I
became your Mother and of the entire human race. I have
always been close to everyone as a loving and sorrowful
mother. I have carried in my heart the sufferings of all. I
have become the mother of all sorrows. It is these
sufferings which are preparing the new times, the rise of
the new era. It is the travail of the new birth.”
 “I am the most pure Mother and I receive with maternal
affection those who fervently and devoutly desire to be my
children and servants in the Lord. I shall embrace them
with open arms and shall be their Intercessor and
Advocate. Thy poverty, uselessness and weakness shall be
for me only a more urgent motive for manifesting toward
thee my most liberal kindness. Therefore, I call upon thee
to become my chosen and beloved daughter in the holy
Church.” (Mary of Agreda)

 “I shall make the fulfillment of my promise depend upon a
service on thy part: namely, that thou have a true and holy
emulation of Saint John, and of all the blessings flowing
from it, by imitating him as perfectly as thy powers will
allow. Hence, thou must promise to fulfill all that I now
command thee, without failing in the least point. I desire,
then, that thou labor until all love of self die within thee.”
thee
 “I desire that thou seek to restore within thee that dove-
like sincerity and simplicity which destroys all malice and
duplicity. In all thy doings thou must be an angel, since
the condescension of the Most High with thee was so great
as to furnish thee with the light and intelligence more of
an angel than that of human.” (Mary of Agreda)

 “I have procured for thee these great blessings and,
therefore, it is but reasonable on my part to expect thee to
correspond with them in thy works and in thy thoughts. In
regard to me thou must cherish a continual affection and
loving desire of pleasing and serving me, being always
attentive to my counsels and having thy eyes fixed upon
me in order to know and execute what I command. Then
shalt thou be my true daughter, and I shall be thy
Protectress and loving Mother.”
 “My dearest, the purity which I require of thee must be
greater than that of an angel; and if thou strive after it
thou wilt become my dearest child, as saint John, and a
most beloved and favored spouse of my Son and Lord. His
example and the ruin of Judas should continually serve
thee as a stimulus and as a warning, to seek only after my
love and to be sincerely thankful for the love shown thee
without thy merit.” (Mary of Agreda)

5C. “Woman, Behold thy son. This is your mother.”
“Her I constitute my sole and
universal Heiress of all the gifts of
nature, of grace and of glory that
are mine. She shall be Mistress and
Possessor of them all. I desire that
She shall be Mistress of angels and
men, claim over them full
possession and dominion and
command the service and obedience
of all.. I wish also that She be the
Treasurer and Dispenser of all the
goods in heaven and on earth.
Whatever She shall ask for mortals
now, afterwards and forever, We
shall concede according to her will
and wishes."
(Mary of Agreda)


 “First shall be mentioned my most pure Mother, who gave Me
human existence; Her I constitute my sole and Universal Heiress
of all the gifts of nature, of grace and of glory that are mine. She
shall be Mistress and Possessor of them all. The gifts of grace, of
which as a mere creature She is capable, She shall actually receive
now, while those of glory I promise to confer upon Her in their time.
 I desire that She shall be Mistress of angels and men, claim
over them full possession and dominion and command the service
and obedience of all. The demons shall fear Her and be subject to
Her. All the irrational creatures, the heavens, the stars, the planets,
the elements with all the living beings, the birds, the fishes and the
animals contained in them, shall likewise be subject to Her and
acknowledge Her as Mistress, exalting and glorifying Her with Me.
 I wish also that She be the Treasurer and Dispenser of all the
goods in heaven and on earth. Whatever She ordains and disposes
in my Church for my children, the sons of men, shall be confirmed
by the three divine Persons; and whatever She shall ask for mortals
now, afterwards and forever, We shall concede according to her will
and wishes.” (Mary of Agreda. The mystical city of God,)

Why have you forsaked me
I am thirsty

 Stay beneath the Cross.

6.** “My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me”

“I sought consolers but I
found none. Not here
beneath the cross are his
friends and disciples.

With John, I want all of
you to stay beneath the
Cross. Live beneath the
Cross, out of love and for
the salvation of all.”
(Gobbi)

6A. “My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me”

“At least you my beloved
ones, remain with me
beneath the Cross, together
with your brother John, to
give comfort and consolation
to your sorrowful Mother,
pierced once again by the
sword of such a vast
rejection. Unite your sorrow
with mine, to implore once
again the miracle of Divine
Mercy upon the world.”
(Gobbi)

 The fourth word of Christ was addressed to the
eternal Father: "God, my God, why hast Thou
forsaken Me?" The evil spirits discovered in these
words that the charity of God toward men was
boundless and everlasting; that, in order to satisfy
it, He had mysteriously suspended the influence
of the Divinity over his most sacred humanity,
thus permitting his sufferings to reach the highest
degree and to draw from them the most abundant
fruits. ----Mary of Agreda. Mystical City of God.

 “Stay with me, beloved sons, beneath the Cross,
together with your brother John.
 There is such need for comfort. There is such need
for faith. There is such need for love. There is such
need for hope.
 The bloodied Cross which you contemplate today
in tears will be the cause of your greatest
happiness, because it will be transformed into a
great bright Cross. The bright Cross, which will
extend from east to west and will appear in the
heavens, will be the sign of the return of Jesus in
glory.” (Gobbi)

7.*** “I am thirsty”
“If what I suffer for men
my love for them seem
great to you, be assured
that my love for them is still
unsatiated, that it continues
to long for their eternal
salvation, and that the
mighty waters of torments
and sufferings have not
extinguished it (Cant. 8, 7).
Much more would I suffer
for them, if it were
Cranach Lucas the Elder 1500-03
necessary, in order to
Vinegar on a Stick deliver them.” (Mary of Agreda)
Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna.

7A. “I am thirsty”
“Beloved sons, on this
day of Good Friday,
permit that I might
repeat also to you:
Remain with Jesus, on
the cross. You also, like
Jesus, must be
immolated for the
salvation of the World.”
(Gobbi)

Cranach Lucas the Elder 1500-03
Vinegar on a Stick
Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna.

 In confirmation of this sorrow the Lord added: "I thirst!" The
sufferings of the Lord and his anguish could easily cause a natural
thirst. But for Him this was not a time to complain of this thirst or
to quench it; and therefore Jesus would not have spoken of it so
near to its expiration, unless in order to give expression to a most
exalted mystery. He was thirsting to see the captive children of
Adam make use of the liberty, which He merited for them and
offered to them, and which so many were abusing. He was athirst
with the anxious desire that all should correspond with Him in the
faith and love due to Him, that they profit by his merits and
sufferings, accept his friendship and grace now acquired for them,
and that they should not lose the eternal happiness which He was
to leave as an inheritance to those that wished to merit and accept
it. This was the thirst of our Savior and Master; and the most
blessed Mary alone understood it perfectly and began, with ardent
ion and charity, to invite and interiorly to call upon all the poor,
the afflicted, the humble, the despised and downtrodden to
approach their Savior and thus quench, at least in part, his thirst
which they could not quench entirely. (Mystical city of God)

 The fifth word of Christ, "I thirst." By these
words they (the devils) understood Him to say to
them: If what I suffer for men my love for them
seem great to you, be assured that my love for
them is still unsatiated, that it continues to long
for their eternal salvation, and that the mighty
waters of torments and sufferings have not
extinguished it (Cant. 8, 7). Much more would I
suffer for them, if it were necessary, in order to
deliver them from your tyranny and make them
powerful and strong against malice and pride.
(Mystical city of God)

Jesus dies on the Cross

Words of the Blessed Virgin
on:
 Jesus crucified is your salvation

8.*** Jesus dies on the Cross
The memory of our
Lord’s sufferings is a
great comfort in the
sorrows of this life, a
stimulant to encourage
us to sacrifice ourselves
in our turn for the love of
God.
May we be generous
souls, ready for
everything, despite our
weaknesses and
miseries.

8A. Jesus dies on the Cross
“O gentle and divine Lamb, who
takes away from the world all sin,
evil, hatred, impurity and death.”

“Greater love than this no
man hath, that a man lay
down his life for his friends.”
This freedom with which
Jesus delivered Himself up
to death for us is one aspect
of his sacrifice which touch
our human hearts most
profoundly.

Help me to see my crosses
as ways of loving You.

8B. Jesus dies on the Cross
“When I shall be lifted up from
the earth, I will draw all men to
myself. Draw close to the throne
of grace and mercy, to obtain
salvation.
He is the precious gift of the love
of the Father. He is the obedient
and docile Servant.
He is the lamb who takes away
the sins of the world and free
humanity from the slavery of
Satan.
He is the Bridge which makes it
possible for you to pass from sin
to grace, from death to life, from
slavery to freedom.”
(Gobbi)

8C. Jesus dies on the Cross
Now are fulfilled the holy
Scriptures, the prophecies of the
old Testament. Now are
established on earth my example,
my doctrines, my Sacraments and
my remedies for the sickness of
sin. Now is appeased the justice of
my eternal Father in regard to the
debt of the children of Adam. Now
is my holy Church enriched with
the remedies for the sins
committed by men; the whole work
of my coming into the world is
perfected. (Mary of Agreda)

 In connection with this same mystery the Savior then pronounced
the sixth word: "Consummatum est," It is consummated" (John 19,
 Now is consummated this work of my coming from heaven and I
have obeyed the command of my eternal Father, who sent Me to
suffer and die for the salvation of mankind.
 Now are fulfilled the holy Scriptures, the prophecies figures of the
old Testament, and the course of my earthly and mortal life assumed
in the womb of my Mother.
 Now are established on earth my example, my doctrines, my
Sacraments and my remedies for the sickness of sin.
 Now is appeased the justice of my eternal Father in regard to the
debt of the children of Adam.
 Now is my holy Church enriched with the remedies for the sins
committed by men; the whole work of my coming into the world is
perfected in so far as it concerns Me, its Restorer; the secure
foundation of the triumphant Church is now laid in the Church
militant, so that nothing can overthrow or change it. These are the
mysteries contained in the few words “Consummatum est.”
(Mary of Agreda. The mystical city of God.)

 “It is only Jesus Crucified who must today be
preached and exalted by you in every part of the
world. Jesus Crucified is your God, lifted up on the
gibbet for your salvation. Jesus Crucified, above
all in your times, is foolishness for the wise and a
scandal for the learned and proud, but is in Him
alone that our salvation resides.
 Jesus Crucified is the salvation for this humanity,
which has wandered so far away from God, has
built a civilization without Him and has given itself
a moral law opposed to the Holy law of the Lord.
 It is necessary that the Cross of Christ be planted
in the heart of this humanity. (Gobbi)

 Jesus Crucified is the salvation for the Church. It
is in his Church that Jesus renews the sacrifice of
redemption, takes away all the sin and the evil of
the world. It is his crucified Church that Jesus
becomes salvation for the humanity. You will be
called more and more to suffer, to climb with Jesus
the Calvary of you immolation, for the life of the
world.
 Jesus Crucified is salvation for you all.
 Jesus Crucified becomes, above all in these final
times a sign of hope and of certain victory. His
bright Cross, which will stretch itself out in the
heavens from the east to the west, will indicate to
you all the return of Jesus in glory. (Gobbi)

Divine Mercy
 Divine Mercy

 I am the mother of Mercy

 You are called to be an
instrument of mercy

9.**** Divine Mercy
“The Church is born in the
cradle formed by the blood of
the Son and the tears of the
Mother. Tears and blood. They
are the price of your ransom.
They are the gift of divine
mercy.”
“The water which flows from
the most Sacred Heart will
wash and purify the entire
world.” (Gobbi)

Maerten van Heemskerck, Golgotha . 1540. Hermitage. St. Petersburg.

9A. Divine Mercy
“Merciful Love flows forth
with the blood and the water,
from the wound in his pierced
side. It descends like a
heavenly dew to wash away
every stain, to cancel every sin,
to heal every malady, to close
every wound, to help every
stricken person, to relieve all
who have fallen, to set free
every prisoner, to save
whomever is lost.” (Gobbi)

9B. Divine Mercy “I am Mother of Mercy. To me was
entrusted the task of preparing
humanity to receive the heavenly
dew of Divine Mercy. You are
being called to be the instruments
of divine mercy and instruments of
my motherly mercy.
The times of the great trial will be
shortened, because I am your
Mother and I want to help you, to
carry the cross. How many times
have I already intervened in order
to set back further in time the
beginning of the great trial.”
(Gobbi).

 “I am Mother of Mercy. My motherly task has been that
of giving you Jesus. Divine Mercy has passed through the
way of my divine and immaculate motherhood. Beneath
the Cross, through the will of my Son Jesus, I have
become true Mother of all humanity, redeemed and saved
by him. The triumph of my Immaculate Heart coincides
with the triumph of Divine Mercy upon the world.
 I am Mother of Mercy. To me was entrusted the task of
preparing humanity to receive the heavenly dew of Divine
Mercy.
 My motherly work of mercy is being made manifest in this
way: ---- in leading you along the way of conversion and
return to the Lord. I desire to give you the grace of a
change of heart and of life. I help you to free ourselves
from sin, to fight against the passions, to conquer evil.

---in helping you to a strong experience of prayer. For this
I ask you to multiply and to spread everywhere the
cenacles which I have asked of you, among priests,
children, youth and in families. My Immaculate Heart
must now become the new and spiritual Cenacle, in which
you must all gather together to obtain the gift of the
Second Pentecost.
---in helping you to live through the hour of the great trial.
Without an extraordinary intervention of my motherly
love, you would not be able to support the pain of the great
trial which has now come for all.
 I am the Mother of Mercy. The motherly task of assisting
the Church in the hour of her greatest suffering has been
entrusted to me. I will pour out upon the world the light
and the merciful power of my Immaculate Heart. Have no
fear, I am with you and I will manifest myself in an
extraordinary way.”

 “I am intervening in order to shorten the times of the
great trial. The times will be shortened, because I am
Mother of Mercy and each day I offer, at the throne of
Divine Justice, my prayer united to that of the children
who are responding to me with a yes and consecrating
themselves to my Immaculate Heart.
 I unite the sorrows of my Heart with all the sufferings of
the good people, who are carrying with patience the cross
of these times of the great tribulation. The sufferings of
the poor and the exploited; of the little ones and the
marginalized; of the sinners and those far away; of the
sick and the desperate; of the abandoned and the
oppressed, are gathered together in the garden of my
motherly suffering and offered to the Divine Justice as a
sign of reparation and perennial intercession.

 “The times will be shortened, because I am your
Mother and I want to help you, with my presence,
to carry the cross.
 How many times have I already intervened in
order to set back further and further in time the
beginning of the great trial, for the purification of
this poor humanity, now possessed and dominated
by the Spirits of Evil. (Gobbi)

 “How much blood flows down again from the
weeping eyes of your heavenly Mother! I am
causing tears and blood to flow down from some of
my images. How can a child not be moved before
its mother who is weeping? Haw can you, my
beloved children, not be moved before your
heavenly Mother who is weeping tears of blood.?
 I see your roads smeared with tears and blood. At
least you my beloved ones, remain with me beneath
the Cross, together with your brother John, to give
comfort and consolation to your sorrowful Mother,
pierced once again by the sword of such a vast
rejection. Unite your sorrow with mine, to implore
once again the miracle of Divine Mercy upon the
world.”

 “You are being called to be the instruments of
divine mercy for all this poor humanity . Be
strong witnesses of faith, of holiness and of love.
 Let your trust be great. I am a Mother and I want
to spread the balm of my motherly love upon all my
children. I have need of you. I ask you to
consecrate yourselves to my Immaculate Heart,
because I want to make of you instruments of my
motherly mercy. Take my most needy children in
your arms and bring them into the refuge of my
Immaculate Heart. Let your trust be great. The
triumph of my Immaculate Heart is near.
 Latin America (your country) belongs to me. I will
manifest myself to all, as a powerful and merciful
Mother.

Words of the Queen on
 Sepulchre of slavery

 The Science of the Cross

 Continual remembrance of the Passion

10. Sepulchre of slavery “Today I invite you to
descend into the
sepulchre with Christ, in
order to die to
yourselves and to the
world.
Let it be the sepulchre of
your slavery, where all
the chains which hold
you under the dominion
of Satan be destroyed.
May you emerge as a
new man of grace and
holiness, of faith, hope
and love.” (Gobbi)
Michelangelo, Pieta, 1498. St. Peter’s Basilica. Vatican city.

Close to every sepulchre
 “As a Mother, I am close to every sepulchre in which each of my new
children is laid.
 I am close the sepulchre where millions of innocent little babies as they
were killed in the wombs of their mothers.
 I am close to the sepulchre where lie all the victims of hatred, violence
and wars.
 I am close the sepulchre where there rest in the sleep of death all my
sinful, poor sick, marginalized, persecuted, oppressed and battered
children.
 Close to every sepulchre, I want to keep watch today with you, my
beloved sons, in sorrow and in prayer. Copious tears flow daily from
my motherly and merciful eyes, as I mourn over each of my new
children who is being carried to the sepulchre.
 I have been waiting with confidence for the moment when all my
children too will come forth from their sepulchre to share forever in
the immortal life which Jesus has obtained for you by his death and
resurrection.” (Gobbi)

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN on the Science of the Cross.
(The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister Mary of Agreda,
Spain.)
 “My daughter, as thy soul has been furnished with gifts of
enlightenment, I call and invite thee anew to cast thyself
into the sea of mysteries contained in the passion and
death of my divine Son. Direct all thy faculties and strain
all the powers of thy heart and soul, to make thyself at
least somewhat worthy of understanding and meditating
upon the ignominies and sorrows of the Son of the eternal
Father in his death on the Cross for the salvation of men;
and also of considering my doings and sufferings in
connection with his bitterest Passion. This science, so
much neglected by men, I desire that thou, my daughter,
study and learn, so as to be able follow thy Spouse and
imitate me, who am thy Mother and Teacher. Writing
down and feeling deeply all that I shall teach thee of these
mysteries, thou shouldst detach thyself entirely of human
and earthly affections and of thy own self, so as freely to

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN. (The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister
Mary of Agreda, Spain.)
 My daughter, seek with all the powers of thy mind during thy whole
life to remember the mysteries manifested to thee in this chapter. I,
as thy Mother and thy Instructress, shall ask the Lord by his divine
power to impress in thy heart the knowledge, which I have
vouchsafed thee, in order that it may remain fixed and ever present
to thee as long as thou livest. In virtue of this blessing keep in thy
memory Christ crucified, who is my divine Son and thy Spouse, and
never forget the sufferings of the Cross and the doctrine taught by
Him upon it. This is the mirror by which thou must arrange all thy
adornments and the source from which thou art to draw thy interior
beauty, like a true daughter of the Prince (Ps 44, 14), in order that
than mayest be prepared, proceed and reign as the spouse of the
supreme King. As this honorable title obliges thee to seek with all
thy power to imitate Him as far as is becoming thy station and
possible to thee by his grace, and as this is to be the true fruit of my
doctrine, I wish that from today on thou live crucified with Christ,
entirely as assimilated to thy exemplar and model and dead to this
earthly life. (II Cor. 5,15).

 WORDS OF THE QUEEN on the Continual Remembrance
of the Passion. (The Virgin Mary speaks to Sister Mary of
Agreda, Spain.)
 “My daughter; through the whole course of my life is evident how
gratefully I kept in mind the works of the Redemption, the passion
and death of my divine Son, especially after I had actually seen Him
sacrificed Cross for the salvation of men. But in this chapter
particularly have I wished to draw thy attention to the care and the
continual exercises, by which I renewed in me not only the
remembrance, but the sufferings of the Passion. I desire that the
knowledge of this cause men to feel reproach and confusion at their
monstrous forgetfulness of the incomprehensible benefit of the
Redemption. O what a shameful, what a horrible and dangerous
ingratitude of men is this! Forgetfulness is a clear proof of
contempt, for one does not forget what one holds dear. What reason
or excuse then can there be, that men forget the eternal blessings
they have received? That they should despise the love, which the
eternal Father has delivered over to death his only begotten Son ?
The charity and patience with which his and my Son accepted it for
them (John 3, 16).”

 “What is the reason then, that only toward their God and Redeemer
they should be ungrateful and forget what He suffered in order to
rescue them from eternal damnation? And in view of this very evil
return, they complain of not receiving his assistance as they desire.
In order that they may understand what fearful guilt they load upon
themselves by their ingratitude, I will remind thee, my daughter,
that Lucifer and his demons, seeing so many souls oblivious of the
sufferings of Christ, draw the following conclusions and say of such
souls: "This soul does not remember or hold in esteem the benefit of
God's Redemption and we are certain of gaining it over to our side;
for the soul that is so foolish as not to remember such a blessing,
will certainly not detect our wiles. Let us proceed to tempt and
destroy it, since it is deprived of its strongest defense ." Having in
their large experience found their reasoning on point to be almost
infallible, they zealously seek to blot out the memory of the passion
and death of Christ to excite a contempt for the preaching or
discoursing about it among men; and they have succeeded to a great
extent, causing dreadful damage to souls. On the other hand they
are wary and fearful of tempting those who have accustomed
themselves to the meditation and the remembrance of the sufferings
of Christ; for from this source they feel issuing against them a force
and influence, which often prevents them from approaching those
who thus piously cherish the memory of the Passion.”

Extraordinary exercises of Passion by Our Lady for
the whole Church to imitate:
 The most blessed Mary in secret practiced other
exercises and good works, by which She merited
innumerable gifts and blessings from the Most High, as
well for the common benefit of all the faithful, as for
myriads of particular souls in furtherance of their
salvation. First of all she constantly kept present in her
memory the doings and the mysteries of the life of her
divine Son.
 The blessed Mother felt in her body and purest soul all
the pains and torments of our Savior Jesus, so that none
of them were hidden to Her or without the corresponding
suffering in her own self. All the images or impressions of
the Passion remained imprinted in her interior just as
She had received them; for She had made this request of
her Lord.

 Hence She ordered all her occupations in such a
manner, that She might at all times preserve in
her heart the image of her divine Son, afflicted,
outraged, wounded and disfigured by the
torments of his Passion, and within Herself She
beheld this image as in a most clear mirror. She
heard the injuries, outrages, affronts and
blasphemies against Him, with all the
circumstances of time and place, and She beheld
the whole Passion as one living and penetrating
vista. Throughout the day this sorrowful vision
excited Her to most heroic acts of virtue and
stirred her sorrow and compassion.

 For each kind of the wounds and sufferings of Christ our
Savior She recited special prayers and salutations, in
order to give them special adoration and worship. For
each of the contemptuous and insulting words of the
Jews and his other enemies, which had been spoken
either in envy or in fury or vengeance, for each of the
blasphemies uttered, She composed special hymns of
veneration and honor to make up for their attempts at
diminishing it. For the insulting gestures, mockeries and
personal injuries, She practiced most profound
humiliations, genuflections and prostrations, and in this
manner She sought continually to make up for the
affronts and injuries heaped upon her divine Son in his
life and his passion; and thus She confessed his Divinity,
his humanity, his holiness, his miracles, his works and
his doctrines. For all She gave him glory and
magnificence; and in all the holy angels joined Her, and
corresponded with Her full of admiration of such
wisdom, fidelity and love united in a mere creature.

 Even if the most blessed Mother during her whole life had
engaged in no other occupation than these exercises, She would
have accomplished and merited more than all the saints in all that
they have done or suffered for God. By the force of love her sorrow
in these exercises was equal to martyrdom many times over; and
many times would She have died in them, if the divine power had
not sustained her life for still greater merit and glory. And if, as is
true, She in her immense charity offered all these works for the
Church, let us consider how much we are in her debt as faithful
children for thus increasing the treasures of help, which She left at
the disposal of us unfortunate children of Eve. And in order that
our meditation may not be half-hearted and lukewarm, I will say,
that the effects of her contemplations were often astounding; many
times She wept tears of blood, which covered her whole face; at
other times in her agony She was not only bathed in perspiration,
but in a bloody sweat, running from Her even to the ground. What
is more, sometimes her heart was wrenched from its natural
position by the violence of her grief; and when She was in such
extremes, her divine Son came from heaven, furnishing Her with
new strength and life to soothe her sorrow and heal the wounds
caused by love of Him, and in order that by such assistance and
comfort, She might continue the exercises of her compassion.

 She obtained also the consent of the evangelist saint John
to remain retired in her oratory for celebrating the death
and burial of her divine Son on Friday of each week. On
those days saint John remained in the Cenacle to receive
those who called upon Her and allowed none to disturb
Her; and whenever he could not attend to this duty, it
was performed by some other disciple. The most blessed
Mary retired for this exercise at five o'clock on Thursday
and did not reappear until toward noon of Sunday. In
order that during these three days no important matter
pertaining to the government of the Church might be
neglected, the great Lady appointed one of her angels to
take her shape and briefly despatch what would suffer no
delay.

 In each hour and moment She renewed in Herself all the
movements, actions, works and sufferings as they had happened in
her divine Son. She repeated the same prayers and petitions as He
himself had made and as we have seen described in their place.
Anew the most pure Mother felt in her virginal body all the pains
endured by Christ our Savior. She carried the Cross and placed
Herself upon it. In short, I will say, that as long as She lived, the
whole passion of her divine Son was renewed in Her week for
week. Through this exercise the great Queen gained great favors
and blessings for those who devoutly bear in mind the Lord's
passion; and hence the powerful Queen has promised to all such
souls, especial assistance and participation in the treasures of the
Passion; for She desired from her inmost heart, that the Church
should continue and preserve its commemoration. In virtue of her
wishes and prayers the Lord ordained, that afterwards many
persons in the holy Church should follow these exercises of the
Passion, imitating his most blessed Mother, who was the first one
to teach and practice such an exalted profession.
(Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God)

The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
1. Fatima Prayer: To Eucharistic Jesus, source of all
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of
hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in
most need of thy mercy.”

2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit: Principal agent of
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people
and enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means
of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.”

3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart (Short version)
“ Virgin of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, we who belong to
the Marian
Movement, consecrate ourselves in a special way to
your
Immaculate Heart. We also consecrate our motherland
(Nation) to
your Immaculate Heart. We intend to live with you,
through you and
for you , all the obligations assumed by our Baptismal
consecration
to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so
urgently
demanded by the Gospel, that we may be available only
to do
always the will of the Father.
Allow us to dwell in the garden of your Immaculate
Heart . Lead us
to a spiritual renewal with prayer and penance, with the
daily

Finally pray one Our Father,
one Hail Mary, and one
Glory be, to the Holy
Father’s intention.

End of the Cenacle

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