Feast of St. John the Evangelist
This rosary was prayed just prior to the Shepherds of Christ Meeting and Mary appeared at the 6:30 Daily Apparition.
His Greatest Anguish was His Sufferings to His Most Sacred Heart
Sorrowful Mysteries
Agony in the Garden
1. The agonies of the heart are the greatest of agonies. How Jesus suffered in the garden.
2. The sufferings to Jesus' Most Sacred Heart were so great that we can never comprehend them; Jesus loves us so much.
3. Jesus saw before Him all the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite all His suffering.
4. Put yourself in the garden and be there with Jesus. Hear the sounds of the night and realize that He is God. He saw before Him everything that He would experience in His whole Passion. He suffered willingly for us. He loves us so much.
5. Jesus saw before Him all the souls that He loved so dearly and would neglect Him and treat Him with such indifference for their whole lives.
6. Jesus saw all the souls that would receive Him in the Sacrament of His greatest love, the Eucharist, and would not even talk to Him.
7. Jesus saw all the sins of all men, before this time and after this time.
8. Jesus suffered so for the anguish that He felt to His Heart for all the souls that would not have time for Him and would not come to be with Him, and for the endless hours that He would spend in the Tabernacle in which no one was there.
9. Jesus' anguish was so great that His sweat became as great drops of blood on the ground.
10. As Jesus suffered so for our sins, He was comforted by the acts of love that we give to Him this day.
Song between decades: A Song From Jesus
Scourging at the Pillar
1. Jesus suffered so because He loved Judas so much and Judas betrayed Him with a kiss.
2. Jesus said, ‘Judas, are you betraying the Son of man with a kiss?’ Luke 22: 48
3. His followers, seeing what was about to happen, said, ‘Lord, shall we use our swords?’ And one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. Luke 22: 49-50
4. Then Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the Temple guard and elders who had come for him, ‘Am I a bandit, that you had to set out with swords and clubs? When I was among you in the Temple day after day you never made a move to lay hands on me. But this is your hour; this is the reign of darkness.’ Luke 22: 52-53
5. They tied Him to a pillar.
6. Be there at the pillar and hear the blows that they gave to Jesus, and Jesus did not cry out; He barely made noise as they beat Him to their own exhaustion.
7. Jesus had wounds on His body from His head to His feet.
8. Jesus loved those so much who beat Him.
9. How could I not love my brother when Jesus suffered these beatings for love of my brother?
10. Jesus would suffer for each one of us this day again because He loves us so much.
Crowning of Thorns
1. They pounded into Jesus' most Precious Head, a piercing crown of thorns.
2. They clothed Him in a dirty purple robe and gave Him a scepter to hold.
3. They hit Him.
4. They persecuted Him; they spit on Him; they treated Him with such cruelty.
5. The blood ran down Jesus' face into His eyes and blurred His vision.
6. Dear Jesus, please help us to see You more clearly, not with the blurred vision that we see You sometimes.
7. Open our eyes to see that You are truly in our midst this day in the Eucharist.
8. Open our eyes so that we can see that it is through Your blood that You paid the price for our sins.
9. Let us see that You live in us in a very special way when we are baptized and in the state of grace.
10. Sing: Crown Him With Many Crowns
Carrying of the Cross
1. They gave to Jesus a heavy wooden cross that He carried on His shoulder, and His shoulder felt as if it would crack through to the ground.
2. Mary stood by and she saw her beloved Son as Jesus fell under the cross. Mary kept all these things in her Most precious heart. Mary felt the pain and the anguish that her Son, Jesus, suffered, helplessly she stood by. Mary was Jesus' Mother, but Mary could not raise a hand to help Him.
3. Do we even know a little bit the anguish of Mary's most precious heart?
4. Mary's eyes peered into the eyes of her beloved Son, and in that peering look is the deepest intimacy between Mary's heart and Jesus' Heart, Mary saw Jesus suffer and Jesus saw Mary suffer. In that look is the knowledge, love, memories of their lives, the intense knowing of each other in Their Hearts, the intense love that They had for one another.
5. How well the Heart of Mary knows the Heart of Jesus. Mary rocked Jesus when He was a baby; she held Him; she carried Him; she was with Him all through His public life. Now on Calvary she walked every step with Him, unable to do anything.
6. Mary's heart was pierced with an invisible sword as time and time again she walked beside Jesus. Mary heard the cross as it bumped along, her heart in such anguish.
7. Only by the grace of God could Mary withstand what she went through during the Passion. Mary walks by our side this day. It is by the grace of God that we will be able to handle the difficulties for she is forever by our side, ever watching us, and ever there to be our most loving mother.
8. Veronica wiped Jesus' face and on that cloth was the blood stained face of our Beloved Savior.
9. This cloth stands today with the stain as a remembrance of Jesus' greatest love, that He gave Himself on Calvary, and He gives Himself to us this day in the Eucharist.
10. Do we know how much Jesus and Mary, so closely united in their Hearts, love each one of us. They suffered so for each one of us and they call out for us to love God and to love one another. They showed us the way.
Jesus is Crucified and Dies on the Cross
1. As Mary held the little baby hands and baby feet of the child Jesus, she now stood by and watched them as they pounded into His most precious hands the nails that went through to the cross.
2. These wounds to Jesus' most precious hands and feet were so deep that they went all the way through His hands and feet.
Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet
3. Jesus' greatest agony was to His most precious Heart. How deep were the wounds that He suffered to His Heart for all the souls that neglect Him this day, and for all the souls that use His name in vain and do not even think of Him. He loves each soul with the most burning love and longs and thirst for them to come and give Him their love.
4. Jesus hung on the cross for three agonizing hours while His Beloved Mother stood beneath the cross supported by her beloved John. Mary scarcely could stand, but she stood and withstood the tortures that Jesus went through. She did not leave but she stayed there as she stands with us in all of our trials that we undergo this day. She is forever by our side.
5. Mary, help us to see more through your eyes and through your heart the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so that we may more closely unite to this overabundant source of love... divine love ... Help us to be an instrument to promote love and oneness.
Sing: See the Eyes that Look at Mary
6. See Jesus hang on the cross in total surrender, humped over in a darkened sky. Jesus shed the last drop of His blood. He gave His all for each of us, and He calls us to love. He showed us how to love and He calls us to love Him and to love one another.
7. With greatest love for each one of us, Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day He died on the cross, waiting for us to come and receive Him in the Eucharist and wait with Him in the Tabernacle.
8. See Mary under the cross hold the lifeless body of her beloved Son. . . the love that both Mary and Jesus have poured out for each one of us.
9. See Mary weep outside of His tomb as they lock Jesus in the tomb.
10. Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. John 19: 25-27
Rita saw Jesus appear as the Divine Mercy Jesus in tremendous light. Marty saw the Sacred Heart picture in brilliant light.
This rosary was prayed just prior to the Shepherds of Christ Meeting. Marty led the rosary, many people in attendance.
December 27, 1994
Feast of St. John the Evangelist
Jesus appeared during this rosary.
Tuesday, Shepherds of Christ Meeting
6. Mary is sinless.
7. Jesus is no less present in our hearts after Communion than He was in Mary's womb.
8. Jesus longs for our love and thirsts for our love. He wants us to come to Him in communion in such anticipation and to realize that we receive Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
9. Jesus waits in the Tabernacle for us to come. Jesus, in His Divinity and humanity, waits for us to come and He wants to shower us with His grace and His abundant Divine Love.
10. Jesus wants to outpour His abundant Divine Love to us.
Birth of Jesus
1. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born in a stable.
2. The cows and the sheep are there to keep Jesus warm.
3. The shepherds watch and the angels sing.
4. Sing: Angels we have Heard on High
5. Sing refrain: Gloria in excelsis Deo
6. Sing: Away in a Manger
7. Sing: O Come let us Adore Him - refrain
8. Sing: What Child is This?
9. Sing: Oh Holy Night
10. Song: See the Eyes That Look at Mary
Presentation in the Temple
1. When the eighth day came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given him before his conception.
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— Luke 2: 21-22
2. Simeon prophesied the sufferings of Jesus and Mary to come.
3. A sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.
4. Mary holds her infant child so lovingly in her arms, and His eyes look at her eyes.
5. Such intimacy between this Son and this Mother. After Simeon's prophesy, Mary forever remembered what Simeon said every time she looked at the child Jesus.
6. Mary knew how He would suffer.
7. Song: Mary's Song
8. How Mary's heart knows the Heart of Jesus.
9. See through Mary's eyes all through Jesus' life, from the time He was an infant till when He ascended into heaven.
10. Ask Mary to lead you ever closer to the most tender love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Finding of Jesus in the Temple
1. 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. Luke 2: 41-42
2. 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. Luke 2: 43-44
3. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere. Luke 2: 45
4. It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; Luke 2: 46
5. and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. Luke 2: 47
6. Mary told Jesus how Their Hearts were in such sorrowing.
7. ...Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ Luke 2: 49
8. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority... Luke 2: 51
9. Mary, if we ever wander or stray or are lost from the child Jesus, please lead us back to His Most Sacred Heart.
10. God, grant to us the grace to know and love the child Jesus ever closer.
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