Passion Week - How To Best Meditate on the Passion of Our Savior Jesus Christ

Greetings in Jesus and Mary!

We are now in Passion Week...preparing for Holy Week! Meditating on the Passion of Jesus is only for the few! Why is that? There are only a few humans who have liberated themselves from this world of tinsel in order to find the gold of Heaven. One must be freed of the devil, the world and the flesh by the renunciation of all these things that keep us from God. We must abandon ourselves to the divine action within us. It takes a certain courage for one to open a book on the Passion of Jesus and read and meditate on His Sufferings. But there is a secret to how this is done successfully! By being consecrated to Jesus through Mary, we are a kind of slave for God’s glory and redemptive work upon this earth. This is how we can attain the higher liberty possible in this life. At prayer, we must free ourselves interiorly, in order to make God the absolute master of our hearts, to renounce everything for Him. In imitation of our Good Mother, we must do everything for God’s love and glory….and for the salvation of souls.


No one has possessed so high a degree of holy liberty as the Blessed Virgin Mary and so we are blessed with an amazing role model and teacher. She is not only our teacher but the Dispenser of all the graces contained in the Heart of Jesus. Can we think of a better method of how to meditate on the Passion of Her Son? She shows us the way and gives us grace to acquire a glimpse of understanding these mysteries. She helps make us pleasing to God by Her help and grace.


We can begin our meditations on the Passion of Jesus by first meditating on Our Sorrowful Mother before we even think of Her Son. We can ask Her to share Her Heart with us and this She is pleased to do! Mary was free at the foot of the cross when She offered her dear Son to God, an oblation which She knew as both crucifying and salutary. Her fiat at Calvary was done with the same freedom that she pronounced at the Annunciation. Grace allowed Her to do all of this but it did not take away Her sufferings. It is stated by many saints that She suffered more that all the martyrs put together. May we start by sharing in the sufferings of Our Mother to understand Her Son.


During our lifetime, we always run the risk of not embracing God’s Will, no matter how light our trial may be. We resist His grace. This misfortune is to be feared because the perfection of the will consists in placing ourselves in God’s hands. We need to be dependent on Him and always docile to His grace. Always turn to Mary!


During this Passion Week before Holy Week, may we seek the aid of our Blessed Mother and beg Her to give us the graces we need to truly embrace our own cross and have the courage to meditate on the Passion of our Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May we come to a greater appreciation and love for all that He did for us! May we pray for the conversion of poor sinners and perform many acts of reparation this week in union with Our Sorrowful Mother Mary. 


As Bishop Fulton Sheen once stated, “There is no resurrection without the cross.” This life is not meant for only comforts and joys. We are to offer our life, our time, our prayers for the salvation of souls and of our own. If we surrender the liberty of our lives to the Heart of Jesus through Mary….we will discover a treasure beyond belief. We will discover a joy surpassing all joys. So let us offer our liberty to Jesus through Mary and try never to ever take it back. May we never find ourselves refusing or dragging our cross. In this holy slavery, may we find deliverance from this world and its tinsel to obtain eternal life with all the gold God has to offer….Let us become spiritual millionaires for it is the Will of God for all of us!

Dearest Mother of Sorrows, pray for us and help us!

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Sorrowful Mother

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