Rosary — The Last Immaculate Kiss

The Seven Sorrows Rosary

Praying and meditating on the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Mother of God gives us the possibility to live the Cross of Jesus in our life and to enter on the path of Faith, Hope, and Love in the life of suffering. I invite you to take this Rosary into your hands, to pray with faith and many petitions will be heard. Enter in this school of life where the teacher is the glorious Cross. This is one of the strong paths of conversion and healing in your life.

Fr. Leszek Czelusniak MIC

Kibeho-Rwanda

Excerpts from the Divine Will writings of Luisa Piccarreta

Hours of the Passion, 4pm Hour

The Sorrows of Mary:

The Burial of Jesus

My sorrowful Mama, I see that You dispose Yourself to the final sacrifice of having to give burial to your lifeless Son Jesus. Most resigned to the Will of God, you accompany Him, and You place Him in the Sepulcher with your own hands. But as You compose those limbs and are about to give Him the last goodbye and the LAST KISS, you feel your heart being torn from your breast because of the pain.

Anguishing Mama, I see You give the last goodbye to the pierced Heart of Jesus. Here you pause. It is the last assault to your maternal heart; you feel it being torn from your breast because of the vehemence of love and pain and, by itself, it runs to place itself in the Most Holy Heart of Jesus. And you, in seeing Yourself without a heart, hasten to take His Most Holy Heart into yours-His love rejected by many creatures, His many ardent desires not fulfilled because of their ingratitude, and the pains and piercings of that Most Holy Heart, which will keep you crucified for the rest of your life. In looking at the wide wound, you kiss it, you lap up the Blood; and feeling the Life of Jesus in Yourself, You have the strength to fulfill the bitter separation. Then you embrace Him, and You allow the sepulchral stone to close on Him.

THE SEVEN SORROWS ROSARY

(Using the Seven Sorrows rosary beads or the traditional rosary beads)

Introduction- The Sign of the Cross

Opening Prayer

My God, I offer to You these little beads of sorrow for your greater Glory in honor of Your Holy Mother. I will meditate and share Your suffering. I beg for the tears of true repentance for my sins.

Repeat the following three times:

To me, a sinner, and to all sinners, grant perfect contrition for our sins.

Act of Contrition:

O My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, behold me kneeling before Thy Divine Presence, all in confusion at the thought of the many grievous injuries I have done Thee. Now I ask pardon for them, repenting of them, purely for love of Thee and ready to lose my life rather than offend Thee again. Do Thou, most tender Virgin, Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners, obtain for me the pardon of all my sins by virtue of thy bitter pains. Help me to pray as, to gain all the graces attached to this devotion.

Amen

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, kindle in them the Fire of Thy Love. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created.

And Thou shall renew the faith of the earth.

Let us Pray:

Enlighten our minds, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with the light of Thy brightness, that we may see what we are to do and be able to do is right, through Christ, Our Lord.

Amen

First Sorrow: Simon prophecies that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary’s Soul.

OUR FATHER PRAYER

There lived in Jerusalem, at the time, a certain man named Simeon. He was just and pious, and awaited the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon Him. (Lk 2:25)

HAIL MARY PRAYER- SEVEN TIMES

Mary, full of Mercy, remind our hearts of the suffering of Jesus during His Passion.

Second Sorrow: Joseph, Mary and The Child, Jesus Flee into Egypt

OUR FATHER PRAYER

After they had left, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph with the command: “Get up, take the Child and His Mother and flee to Egypt.” (Mt 2:13)

HAIL MARY PRAYER-SEVEN TIMES