Author:
Joseph of Jesus and Mary
Heavenly Father I offer you the tears and the sorrows of Our Lady, united to the Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus in reparation for our sins, for all that is lacking in me and in all Creation. ( intentions )
Sorrowful Mother Mary I honour you as I condole in your sorrows and I pray that by your merits I will abhor sin and live to do the Will of God.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour the tears that you shed even in your mother’s womb at the knowledge of the state of humanity in relation to God. I honour all your acts of reparation, your life of humility, hardship, penance, exile, humiliation, poverty, self denial and surrender to the Will of God. (suggested Hail Maries between sorrows)
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour the poverty and the difficulties you faced in bringing Jesus into the world, I honour the pain you experienced in your heart during His circumcision and I worship the Precious Blood of Jesus.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour the pain caused by the sorrow piercing your soul at the prophecy of Simeon.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sorrow at the hatred of Herod which caused your difficult flight to Egypt and the lamentation for the slaughtering of the innocent children.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your distress at the loss of Jesus for three days in the temple of Jerusalem. I honour your sorrow for our sins that makes us lose the Presence of Jesus in our souls the temples of the Holy Spirit.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your life of hardship, rejection, persecution and suffering while sharing the public life of Jesus.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour the tears, the pain and the sacrifice that you shared with Jesus in His passion and Death.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings during the Agony of Our Lord in the Garden of Ghetsemane.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings during the cruel scourging of my Jesus by the pillar, tearing his flesh, shedding his blood and making His sacred body one complete wound.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings at the savage crowning of the Holy head of Jesus with thorns, causing him physical and spiritual torments because of the pride of man.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings on His journey to Calvary, dragging His cross on his wounded shoulder, meeting you on the way, hurting his agonizing body, falling because of our falls into sin and carrying the weight of our guilt.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings as He was violently stripped of His clothing, therefore causing more wounds upon his wounds and on the wounds of your soul.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings as my Jesus was crucified to die like a criminal, to pay for my sins and for the sins of the whole world.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings as you shared his tears, his pain, his sorrow, his agony and his death.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings as his heart was pierced by a lance also to pierce your heart and your soul with sorrow and to open the ocean of God’s Mercy and Love for us.
+ Sorrowful Mother Mary, I honour your sufferings before the resurrection of Our Lord, as you embraced his lifeless body, as you placed him in the tomb and as you suffer for each soul until we are saved.