Walking With Jesus-Daily Divine Will Calendar From The Writings Of Servant Of God Luisa Piccarreta
September 17, 1905
How one can participate in the sorrows of the Queen Mama- Volume 6
Jesus- “Everyone can share in the merits and in the goods produced by the sorrows of my Mother. One
who, in advance, places herself in the hands of Providence, offering herself to suffer any kind of pains, miseries, illnesses,
calumnies, and everything which the Lord will dispose upon her, comes to participate in the first sorrow of the prophecy
of Simeon. One who actually finds herself amid sufferings, and is resigned, clings more tightly to Me and does not offend
Me, it is as if she were saving Me from the hands of Herod, keeping Me safe and sound within the Egypt of her heart – and
she participates in the second sorrow. One who feels downhearted, dry and deprived of my presence, and remains yet
firm and faithful to her usual practices – even more, she takes the opportunity to love Me and to search for Me more,
without tiring – comes to participate in the merits and goods which my Mother acquired when I was lost. One who, in any
circumstance she encounters, especially in seeing Me gravely offended, despised, trampled upon, tries to repair Me, to
compassionate Me, and to pray for the very ones who offend Me – it is as if I encountered in that soul my own Mother
who, if She could have done it, would have freed Me from my enemies; and she participates in the fourth sorrow. One
who crucifies her senses for love of my crucifixion, and tries to copy the virtues of my crucifixion within herself,
participates in the fifth one. One who is in a continuous attitude of adoring, of kissing my wounds, of repairing, of
thanking etc., in the name of all mankind, it is as if she were holding Me in her arms, just as my Mother held Me when I
was deposed from the Cross – and she participates in the sixth sorrow. One who remains in my grace and corresponds to
it, giving a place to no one else but Me within her heart, it is as if she buried Me in the center of her heart – and she
participates in the seventh one.”
Scripture Meditation- But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (John 19:25-26).
Prayer Reflection- O Lord, we love You, we bless You and we adore You because today we honor the Sorrows of Your Holy Mother and ours. We love You because You show us today how to participate in each one of these sorrows and in doing so consoling Her Heart and Yours! There is no sorrow, no trauma, no grief, no illness- nothing that we are going through that She and You do not understand. And we can take these Sorrows and make them our own for Your Glory and the good of all!. Some resolutions for each sorrow:
- First Sorrow- Giving our fiat no matter what, no giving into worry, fear, anxiety but offering it through Our Blessed Mother to You as the “little coin” of infinite value, with which you will be able to pay the debts of your brothers, to ransom them from the slavery of the human will, so as to make them enter again, as free children, into the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat. (Day #23 Queen Book).
- Second Sorrow- Cling to Jesus in any suffering!
- Third Sorrow- Do no change prayer or rule of life no matter of what in any dryness or desolation (Ignatian Rules of Discernment-Fifth Rule).
- Fourth Sorrow- Praying and interceding and repairing for all in any suffering including that of our loves ones and any offense to God.
- Fifth Sorrow- Mortification and dying to self as well as forgiveness of all including ourselves.
- Sixth Sorrow- Adoring Jesus over and over again for all.
- Seventh Sorrow- Remaining in and corresponding to grace and acting as if there was no one but Jesus. “Fix in your interior that there is only Jesus and you in the world, and no
one else; and that Him alone must you please, satisfy and love, and from Him alone must you expect to be loved
in return and contented in everything.” Blessed Mother-Volume 4
