LATE NIGHT REFLECTION
A Good Friday Message #97, titled, 'See if There Is a Greater Sorrow.'
Again Our Lady is talking to her priest-sons about Her great sorrow of Good Friday. She describes Jesus' sufferings as She saw it; first He's abandoned, then scourged and crowned with thorns, next He is carrying the heavy Cross with great difficulty on His poor shoulders. He falls, His legs give out under the weight! No one pity's Him; He receives only hatred, hostility and indifference.
At that very moment, the Father gives Jesus the comfort of His Mother. Mother Mary says, think of that comfort and the pain of this meeting along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Grief)! Jesus looks at His Mother and a wound opens up in Our Lady's Heart that has never healed! Our Lady watched the entire crucifixion. She was full of sorrow for Her divine Son and for us!
Today the Lord continues His sacred Passion in His Mystical Body, the Church. Again Our Lady is in pain remembering the villainous betrayal of Judas and the present day betrayal of many of Her priest-sons. And She cries out in tears: "O priests, why do you betray and persist in your treason against My Son Jesus? Why don't you repent and return?"
Like Peter, who denies Jesus three times out of fear; how many priests fear of not being understood, appreciated, or esteemed? They still deny the truth of the Gospel: "I do not know the Man! (Mt. 26:72) And like the Apostles who run away and leave Jesus alone for the entire long Friday, how many run away from the Church? Some follow the world; others stay in the Church, but to please the world, abandon it in mind and heart.
Saint John remains by the Mother!
If we stay with Mother Mary, we will not betray Jesus and we will not leave the Church, the Pope, and the Bishops united with him, abandoned! Let us unite our sufferings with Our Lady's sufferings in this hour of Calvary for the Church. Then we will be signs of Her presence and comfort which the Father gives in its moment of passion and martyrdom!
Roman Deacon
A Good Friday Message #97, titled, 'See if There Is a Greater Sorrow.'
Again Our Lady is talking to her priest-sons about Her great sorrow of Good Friday. She describes Jesus' sufferings as She saw it; first He's abandoned, then scourged and crowned with thorns, next He is carrying the heavy Cross with great difficulty on His poor shoulders. He falls, His legs give out under the weight! No one pity's Him; He receives only hatred, hostility and indifference.
At that very moment, the Father gives Jesus the comfort of His Mother. Mother Mary says, think of that comfort and the pain of this meeting along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Grief)! Jesus looks at His Mother and a wound opens up in Our Lady's Heart that has never healed! Our Lady watched the entire crucifixion. She was full of sorrow for Her divine Son and for us!
Today the Lord continues His sacred Passion in His Mystical Body, the Church. Again Our Lady is in pain remembering the villainous betrayal of Judas and the present day betrayal of many of Her priest-sons. And She cries out in tears: "O priests, why do you betray and persist in your treason against My Son Jesus? Why don't you repent and return?"
Like Peter, who denies Jesus three times out of fear; how many priests fear of not being understood, appreciated, or esteemed? They still deny the truth of the Gospel: "I do not know the Man! (Mt. 26:72) And like the Apostles who run away and leave Jesus alone for the entire long Friday, how many run away from the Church? Some follow the world; others stay in the Church, but to please the world, abandon it in mind and heart.
Saint John remains by the Mother!
If we stay with Mother Mary, we will not betray Jesus and we will not leave the Church, the Pope, and the Bishops united with him, abandoned! Let us unite our sufferings with Our Lady's sufferings in this hour of Calvary for the Church. Then we will be signs of Her presence and comfort which the Father gives in its moment of passion and martyrdom!
Roman Deacon
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