Friday of Passion Week - Love and Compassion for our Sorrowful Mother

 Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Tomorrow is the Friday of Passion Week. We meditate on the sorrows of our dear Blessed Mother. I hope all of us have had some great reading of the Passion of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ during this Lent...there are so many great books as well as of course Scripture for us to meditate on all that transpired  for us.

My favorite each year is the Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich. I learn so much each time I go through it and it always brings me closer to Jesus and Mary!

I have included some words of Mary and Jesus below...I have posted them in the past because they are my favorites. I pray you have a blessed Feast Day and a Holy Palm Sunday this weekend.....God bless!

In the 4th Chapter of "The City of God – The Incarnation" by Mother Mary Agreda, Our Lady has stated in the instructions these following words:
 
“When I turned from the consideration of this most liberal condescension of the Most High, to the perception and understanding of the foolish hard-heartedness of the sinners, my soul was pierced with an arrow of mortal anguish – which remained for life. Many times the Most High in order to heal the affliction and consternation of my heart in this sorrow, sought to console me by saying, “Accept Thou, my Spouse, the gifts which the blind and ignorant world in its unworthiness despises and is incapable of receiving and understanding.”
 
"Be now my companion in the sorrow which I suffered and which is so little noticed by the living. In order to imitate me, you must deny yourself, forget yourself entirely and crown your heart with the thorns of sorrow at the behavior of mortals."
 
"Weep in seeing them laugh at their eternal damnation, for such weeping is the most legitimate occupation of the true sorrow of my Most Holy Son."
 
And from the Sacred Heart of Jesus we have the words from Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary:
 
“And He showed me that it was His great desire of being loved by men and of withdrawing them from the path of ruin into which Satan hurls such crowds of them, that made Him form the design of manifesting His Heart to men, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace, of sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order that those who desire to render Him and procure for Him all the honor and love possible, might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which this Heart is the source. He should be honored under the figure of this Heart of flesh, and its image should be exposed…He promised me that wherever this image should be exposed with a view to showing It special honor, He would pour forth His blessings and graces. This devotion was the last effort of His love that He would grant to men in these latter ages, in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan which He desired to destroy, and thus to introduce them into the sweet liberty of the rule of His love, which He wished to restore in the hearts of all those who should embrace this devotion.”
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Dolorous Passion