How
to Avoid Purgatory and be taken straight to Heaven!
Promoting the Devotion of The Seven Sorrows Of The
Virgin Mary
The Blessed Virgin Mary grants seven graces to the souls who honour her daily by saying seven Hail Mary's and meditating on her tears and dolors. Pay particular attention to the 7th and most precious grace of all! The devotion was passed on by St. Bridget of Sweden.
The Seven Graces Given To Those Individuals That Meditate On The Seven Sorrows Of The Virgin Mary (As revealed to Saint Bridget by the Blessed Mother)
1.
I will grant peace
to their families.
2.
They will be
englightened about the divine mysteries.
3.
I will console them
in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.
4.
I will give them as
much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my
divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.
5.
I will defend them
in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at
every instant of their lives.
6.
I will visibly help
them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.
7.
I have obtained (This Grace) from my
divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly
from the earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be
forgiven and my son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy
The
Following Are The Seven Sorrows Of Mary:-
1.
The Prophecy
Of Simeon (St.
Luke II, 34, 35)
And when the day came for them
to be purified in keeping with the Law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem
to present him to the Lord--observing what is written in the Law of the Lord:
Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord--and also to offer in
sacrifice, in accordance with what is prescribed in the Law of the Lord, a pair
of turtledoves or two young pigeons. Now in Jerusalem there was named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked
forward to the restoration of Israel and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had
been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he
had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the
Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the
Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said: Now,
Master, you are letting your servant go in peace as you promised; for my eyes
have seen the salvation which you have made ready in the sight of the nations;
a light of revelation for the gentiles and glory for your people Israel. As the
child's father and mother were wondering at the things that were being said
about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, 'Look, he is
destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is
opposed--and a sword will pierce your soul too--so that the secret thoughts of
many may be laid bare.'
2.
The Flight
Into Egypt. (St.
Matthew II, 13-14)
After they had left, suddenly the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, 'Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because herod intends to search for the child and do away with him.' So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt, where he stayed until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: I called my son out of Egypt. Herod was furious on realising that he had been fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men. Then were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more. Matthew 2: 13-18
3.
The Loss Of
The Child Jesus In The Temple. (St. Luke II, 43-45)
Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day's journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere. It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, 'My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.' He replied, 'Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house? But they did not understand what he meant. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. Luke 2: 41-51
4. The
Meeting Of Jesus And Mary On The Way Of The Cross (From the visions of
Blessed Ann Catherine Emmerich in her “Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical
Revelations”)
And now came on the executioner's servants, insolent and triumphant, with their instruments of torture, at sign of which the Blessed Mother trembled, sobbed, and wrung her hands. One of the men said to the bystanders "Who is that woman in such distress?" And someone answered: "She is the Mother of the Galilean." When the miscreants heard this, they jeered at the sorrowing Mother in words of scorn, pointed at her with the fingers; and one of the base wretches, snatching up the nails intended for the crucifixion, held them up mocking before her face. Wringing her hands, she gazed up at Jesus and, in her anguish, leaned for support against one of the pillars of the gate. She was pale as a corpse, her lips livid. The Pharisees came riding forward, then came the boy with the inscription--and oh! a couple of steps behind him, the Son of God, her own Son, the Holy One, the Redeemer! Tottering, bowed down, His thorn-crowned head painfully bent over to one shoulder on account of the heavy cross He was carrying, Jesus staggered on. The executioners pulled Him forward with the ropes. His face was pale, wounded, and blood-stained, His beard pointed and matted with blood. From His sunken eyes full of blood He cast, from under the tangle and twisted thorns of His crown, frightful to behold, a look full of earnest tenderness upon His afflicted Mother, and for the second time tottered under the weight of the cross and sank on His hands and knees to the ground. The most sorrowful Mother, in vehemence of her love and anguish, saw neither soldiers nor executioners---saw only her beloved, suffering, maltreated Son. Wringing her hands, she sprang over the couple of steps between the gateway and the executioners in advance, and rushing to Jesus, fell on her knees with her arms around Him. I heard, but I know not whether spoken with the lips or in spirit, the words: "My Son!"---"My Mother!" The executioners insulted and mocked. One of them said: "Woman, what dost thou want here? If thou hadst reared Him better, He would not now be in our hands." I perceived, however, that some of the soldiers were touched. They obliged the Blessed Virgin to retire, but not one of them laid a finger on her. John and the women led her away, and she sank, like one paralyzed in the knees by pain, on one of the cornerstones that supported the wall near the gateway.
5. The Crucifixion. (Taken from the visions of Blessed Ann Catherine Emmerich in “The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ”)
The Blessed Virgin stood motionless; from time to time you might distinguish her plaintive moans; she appeared as if almost fainting from grief, and Magdalen was quite beside herself. When the executioners had nailed the right hand of our Lord, they perceived that his left hand did not reach the hole they had bored to receive the nail, therefore they tied ropes to his left arm, and having steadied their feet against the cross, pulled the left hand violently until it reached the place prepared for it. This dreadful process caused our Lord indescribable agony, his breast heaved, and his legs were quite contracted. They again knelt upon him, tied down his arms, and drove the second nail into his left hand; his blood flowed afresh, and his feeble groans were once more heard between the blows of the hammer, but nothing could move the hard-hearted executioners to the slightest pity. The arms of Jesus, thus unnaturally stretched out, no longer covered the arms of the cross, which were sloped; there was a wide space between them and his armpits. Each additional torture and insult inflicted on our Lord caused a fresh pang in the heart of his Blessed Mother; she became white as a corpse, but as the Pharisees endeavoured to increase her pain by insulting words and gestures, the disciples led her to a group of pious women who were standing a little farther off.
6. The Taking Down Of The Body Of Jesus From The Cross. (From the visions of Blessed Ann Catherine Emmerich in her “Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations”)
As soon as the Sacred Body was taken down, the men wrapped it in linen from the knees to the waist, and laid it on a sheet in His Mother's arms which, in anguish of heart and ardent longing, were stretched out to receive it. The Blessed Virgin was seated upon a large cover spread upon the ground, her right knee raised a little, and her back supported by a kind of cushion made, perhaps, of mantles rolled together. There sat the poor Mother, exhausted by grief and fatigue, in the position best suited for rendering 1ove's last, sad duties to the remains of her murdered Son. The men laid the Sacred Body on a sheet spread upon the Mother's lap. The adorable head of Jesus rested upon her slightly raised knee, and His body lay outstretched upon the sheet. Love and grief in equal degrees struggled in the breast of the Blessed Mother. She held in her arms the body of her beloved Son, whose long martyrdom she had been able to soothe by no loving ministrations; and at the same time she beheld the frightful maltreatment exercised upon it, she gazed upon its wounds now close under her eyes. She pressed her lips to His blood-stained cheeks, while Magdalen knelt with her face bowed upon His feet.
7. The Burial Of Jesus. (John 19: 38-42)
After
this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus--though a secret one
because he was afraid of the Jews--asked Pilate to let him remove the body of
Jesus. Pilate gave permission, so they
came and took it away. Nicodemus came
as well--the same one who had first come to Jesus at night-time--and he brought
a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and bound it in
linen cloths with the spices, following the jewish burial custom. At the place where he had been crucified
there was a garden, and in this garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been
buried. Since it was the Jewish Day of
Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. (John 19: 38-42)
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