http://www.discerninghearts.com/cat...zabeth-of-the-trinity-with-dr-anthony-lilles/ If you scroll down to Day 15, Part II, and listen to St. Elizabeth's words from 1:00-3:42, what is sometimes frightful, ultimately teaches me to all the more entrust my heart to Our Lady while contemplating the Crucifixion. I am no mystic, but sometimes I wish it were so. Safe in the Refuge of the Immaculate Heart!
Sorrow is like that. I often ask, "Why?" when grief hits me, not so much that I want to understand, but because the question must be asked, though great sorrow stops all thought. Safe in the Flames of the Sacred Heart!
What a beautiful thread and what lovely things to think about. This is really quite intimate and I thank everyone for sharing a very private part of themselves.
What do you mean suffered? In the garden? We know he struggled. We know he was comforted by angels and we know he sweat blood. He asked His father to let this cup pass from him. He was fully man and fully God so as fully man He indeed struggled with what was about to happen to him in the garden. I don't remember where I read it maybe Mystical City of God, but it said on the cross he saw all sin, past present and future. There are so many times I apologize for nailing Him to the cross again and again and again as well as adding new stripes to his body during his scourging. I also feel great pain for Our Lord every time I pass a church or every time I am in one and I am the only one in there. I wonder if others come and just visit Him all alone in the tabernacle. It is like he is back there in the garden but this time He has no one to comfort him. It always amazes me how few actually go and spend time with Him. I am just as guilty. I need to remind myself all the time that He may be there all by Himself just waiting for a visitor. I need to go visit Him more! That is what I want to do most this Lent. I work right next to 3 Catholic churches all within a half mile from my office. I need to see Him daily this Lent even if just for a few minutes each day.
Yes I love going into a Church and I am the only one there. It is selfish I know, but I think I have Him all to myself. Then again I feel really guilty on leaving, leaving Him alone again. But I comfort myself that the Church is full of angels . But He did not come down for the angels; He came down for us.
Yes, Dolours. Beautifully said. I don't have to wonder what I would have done if I'd been there. I would have been asleep. But when I make my Holy Hour I meditate on being there in the Garden but awake as I am right that moment and pray that it brings Him some comfort however small.
When I get a chance to be alone, I will listen to the podcast. I'm anxious to. I think the Sorrowful Mysteries are harder now because I know in some small part what Our Lady experienced. A very small part. But it is enough to reduce me to tears. I will say the Sorrowful Mysteries seem the most powerful when I'm praying for loved ones to return to God. I find Isaiah's words about the Suffering Servant so powerful--our sins He carried, for our iniquities He suffered and by His stripes we are healed. I think/meditate about that quite a bit. Also, the conversation with Pilate. I can never get beyond that when I get to the third Mystery of the Crowning. Poor Pilate struggling to understand so that he could find a way to free Jesus. But a coward in the end. Frightened by reports going to Rome. Just like any one of us. Have you ever read a novel by Leonard Wibberly called The Seven Hills? (he wrote the popular Mouse That Roared from many years ago) It's a wonderful novel about Theopholus from Luke's gospel. So worth the reading if you can get your hands on it. The scene with Pilate is superbly done.
I concur. I spend most of my lunch time at Church. Most of the time alone and the only thing I regret is that I did not do it sooner.
