NOVEMBER 21, 1998
SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
(EVE OF FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING)

Sing: The King Of Glory

Sing: A Song from Jesus

Agony In The Garden

1. Messenger: Jesus came to this earth out of love.
2. Jesus remains with us in the tabernacle out of love for us.
3. Jesus knew all His beloved souls that would reject Him.
4. Jesus was in such anguish because of the lack of love from His beloved souls, He sweat Blood.
5. Jesus wants us to be one with Him in all our actions.
6. When we love each other, we are loving Jesus.
7. When we hate each other, we are failing in our love for Jesus.
8. Jesus is in our brothers.
9. God created us to know, love, and serve Him.
10. The First Commandment is , "I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides Me."

The Scourging At The Pillar

1. Messenger: Our Blessed Lord stood at the pillar and was scourged for our sins.
2. His Blood shed for us is a sign for us of His deep love for us.
3. He wants for us to come and be with Him in the tabernacle.
4. He is truly present, no less present than the day He walked the earth.
5. These rosary meditations are to help all, especially the youth, to love Jesus so much more.
6. Please give these rosary meditations to your friends and tell them how to pray the rosary.
7. Mary told us at Fatima that we must pray the rosary.
8. Picture Jesus at the pillar, His hands tied.
9. See the men raise their whips to beat His Body.
10. Hear the slap as it hits His tender skin.

The Crowning With Thorns

1. Messenger: Every king of a kingdom has rules.
2. Jesus is our King, He is the Almighty God.
3. Jesus gives to us the Ten Commandments, they are God’s laws that we must obey.
4. We say in the Mass, "For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours, now and forever."
5. Jesus is the King of all kings.
6. We are the children of God.
7. Jesus our King loves us so much, He came and allowed Himself to be crowned with a crown of thorns.
8. Matthew 27:28-29
   And they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak round him, and having twisted some thorns into a crown they put this on his head and placed a reed in his right hand. To make fun of him they knelt to him saying, ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’
9. Matthew 27:30
   And they spat on him and took the reed and struck him on the head with it.
10. Matthew 27:31
    And when they had finished making fun of him, they took off the cloak and dressed him in his own clothes and led him away to crucifixion.

Carrying Of The Cross

1. Messenger: The men gave to Jesus a heavy cross.
2. John 19:17
   They then took charge of Jesus, and carrying his own cross he went out to the Place of the Skull or, as it is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
3. Jesus fell under the weight of the cross three times.
4. Some women came weeping for Jesus and He told them to weep not for Him but for themselves and their children.
5. Mary is our Mother and we are her children.
6. Mary always leads us closer to her Son, Jesus.
7. Mary and Jesus looked into each other’s eyes on the way to Calvary.
8. Mary walked by her Son as He suffered.
9. Mary is walking with us each day in all our trials.
10. Mary loves us more than any earthly mother.

Crucifixion

1. Messenger: Jesus mounted the cross, He gave His life for those He loved.
2. John 19:19
   Pilate wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the cross; it ran: ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’.
3. John 19:26
   Seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’
4. John 19:27
   Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
5. John 19:29
   A jar full of sour wine stood there; so, putting a sponge soaked in the wine on a hyssop stick, they held it up to his mouth.
6. John 19:30
   After Jesus had taken the wine he said, ‘It is fulfilled’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.
7. John 19:33-34
   When they came to Jesus, they saw he was already dead, and so instead of breaking his legs one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.
8. John 19:37
   and again, in another place scripture says: They will look to the one whom they have pierced.
9. I John 4:7-11 The source of love
   My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God’s love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.
10. I John 4:20-21
    Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.
    Sing: Crown Him With Many Crowns
    Sing: To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
    Jesus: On this Feast of Christ the King, I beg you to pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus all through the day.