ROSARY MEDITATIONS
FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN
APRIL 21, 1995
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

  1. Jesus: Agony of agonies! How I suffered, My dear ones, in the Garden. I saw before Me all the sins of all men from all time. I knew the souls that would be condemned to eternal damnation despite My suffering.
  2. Jesus: People do not want to hear this day. They plug up their ears and close their eyes. Children are being murdered in their mother's wombs!
  3. Jesus: I saw before Me all the vileness in men's hearts, the cruelty they do to one another. How My Heart was wounded, for I love souls so dearly.
  4. Jesus: You were created by the Father. You are His precious creation.
  5. Jesus: How He loves the little children of this world! They are so precious to Him!
  6. Jesus: I saw before Me all the suffering I was about to experience.
  7. Jesus: I asked My Father that, if it were possible, this cup be removed from Me, but, not My Will, but His Will be done.
  8. Jesus: My apostles-those that I loved-they slept!
  9. Jesus: My little ones, can you not come and pray with Me? I asked My apostles to spend one hour with Me and they slept! Those that I loved and wanted to be close to slept!
  10. Jesus: I am your best friend Jesus. I gave My life for you that you could be with Me in heaven. My little ones, how I love you and want to be so close to you.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar

  1. R. Jesus was led away. They pulled His hair! They poked Him and hit Him! They took Him away and tied Him to a pillar!
  2. R. What did Jesus do that these men felt they could put Him to death?
  3. R. How hard it is sometimes to walk in this world today, to stand up for God when others have forgotten Him.
  4. R. They took Jesus, tied Him to a pillar and whipped Him with harsh instruments that tore His skin and made Him bleed.
  5. R. This is your best friend, Jesus. He is God! He came to earth so that we might be with Him forever in heaven. See Him covered with wounds, deep wounds, His marks of love covering His entire body!
  6. Mary: Tell your children to pray the rosary. I am Mary, your mother. I give to you this rosary to spread to the children of this world. It is the rosary that will draw their hearts closer to my Son, Jesus.
  7. Mary: They untied my Son and led Him away, covered with wounds, whipped and beaten.
  8. Mary: Your friends may persecute you, my little children. They are cruel sometimes. Know that Jesus is your best friend. He loves you so much that He suffered the scourging at the pillar.
  9. R. Do you know how it is to love someone and have them treat you cruelly. Jesus loves each and every soul so much that He suffered and died for them. How He is treated cruelly by those souls He loves so dearly!
  10. R. He asks you to love all men! There is not one soul that He would not give His life for. He asks you to love those that are cruel to you, to be kind to all men, to follow in His ways. His ways are always gentle. His ways are kind. His way is the way of love.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Is Crowned with a Crown of Thorns

  1. Jesus: They took Me and gave Me a throne. They covered My bloodied wounds with a dirty robe and then pounded sharp thorns into My head.
  2. Jesus: They laughed-a cruel, hateful laugh! They laughed and spit in My face and called Me a king! These were the souls that I gave My life for.
  3. Jesus: You will be persecuted for My sake. The world has turned away from God. They have made other things their gods. They want themselves to be supreme. My children, pray for your world, for your prayers so please the Heavenly Father.
  4. Jesus: Your friends are cruel to you. Love those who are cruel! People that are cruel are hurting inside.
  5. Jesus: You must forgive. Pray for grace from the Spirit to transform you to be more like Jesus.
  6. Jesus: Mary walked by My side all through My life. She is your mother. She walks by your side. Every minute of the day, your mother is with you.
  7. Jesus: You are My little saints in this world. I love you so dearly and want to be so close to you. I never leave you. I am your beloved Jesus, Savior of the world.
  8. Jesus: You will suffer from those who you wish would love you. But look how I suffered, My little ones! See Me as they spit in My face and hit Me on the head. The blood ran from My mouth from the blows they gave to My head. This is the love that I have for you.
  9. Jesus: Do always the Will of the Father. He loves you, My dear, little children. Listen in your heart and you will hear Him speak to you.
  10. Jesus: Children need to pray to the Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to be your friend, to be with you and to guide you on your way.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Carries His Cross Up Calvary

  1. R. Jesus carried a heavy cross laden with the sins of the world.
  2. R. He did not give up His cross. He carried His cross. He did not complain. Covered with wounds and covered with blood, He carried the cross on His back.
  3. Jesus: I ask you to carry the little crosses I give you this day. It is in carrying these crosses that you will grow closer to Me.
  4. Jesus: Satan wants you to be willful. He wants you to demand your own way. The way to Me, to the Father, to heaven, is to do the Will of the Father.
  5. R. Covered with blood, He could scarcely go on. He fell under the cross three times. He did not give the cross up. He collapsed from the weight of it.
  6. R. How closely united Jesus is to His mother. His mother was with Him in such close union His whole life. Now their eyes meet on the way to Calvary. In that meeting of the eyes there is such joy to see each other but such sorrow to watch each other suffer.
  7. Jesus: My dear, little ones, I call out to you and ask you to pray for your friends in school.
  8. Jesus: When you see people who are mean, pray for them. They are hurting in their hearts.
  9. R. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit live inside of you every minute when you are in the state of grace. They live in such a special way within your very heart.
  10. R. Make your hearts pure and model your lives after the lives of Jesus and Mary.

Song between decades: I come to you with greatest love…

Jesus Dies on the Cross

  1. R. The greatest of all agonies, the agony of the Heart! How Jesus loves each and every special child!
  2. R. He loves them so much that He gave His flesh and blood for each and every soul.
  3. Jesus: The Father, out of greatest love, gave you a free will. I died on the cross. It was My Father's Will. But I remained at peace for I knew the Father's love. The Father loves you, My beloved children. Go to Him, talk to Him. Know that He loves you deeply.
  4. R. Jesus has not gone. As He gave His life on the cross, He gives His life this day. He is here in His humanity and His divinity in the consecrated host, longing and waiting for you to come and be alone with Him.
  5. R. We want God to be more like us, but God is as He is. God is a mystery! Give us the grace to know more and more the mystery of God.
  6. R. When we are persecuted, help us to see before our eyes the crucified Jesus, to know that He was persecuted.
  7. R. Mary is calling you to holiness. Will you turn your hearts to God?
  8. R. Souls that are holy are at peace.
  9. R. When you have love, you have joy!
  10. R. The way to God is to love.

Song after the last decade: I come to you with greatest love…

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