14 beautiful promises of Jesus for those who practice this devotion
At the age of 18 a Spaniard joined the novices of the Piarist fathers in Bugedo. He pronounced the vows regulently and distinguished himself for perfection and love. In October 1926 he offered himself to Jesus through Mary. Immediately after this heroic donation, he fell and was immobilized. He died holy in March 1927. He was also a privileged soul who received messages from heaven. Its director asked him to write the promises made by Jesus to those who assiduously practice the VIA CRUCIS. They are:
1. I will give everything that is asked of me in faith during the Via Crucis
2. I promise eternal life to all those who pray the Via Crucis from time to time with pity.
3. I will follow them everywhere in life and will help them especially in the hour of their death.
4. Even if they have more sins than the grains of sea sand, all will be saved from the practice of the Way Crucis.
5. Those who pray the Via Crucis frequently will have special glory in heaven.
6. I will free them from purgatory on the first Tuesday or Saturday after their death.
7. There I will bless every Way of the Cross and My blessing will follow them everywhere on earth, and after their death, even in heaven for eternity.
8. At the hour of death I will not allow the devil to tempt them, I will leave them all faculties for them
may they rest peacefully in My arms.
9. If they pray the Via Crucis with true love, I will transform each of them into a living ciborium in which I am I will be pleased to make My grace flow.
10. I will fix My gaze on those who will often pray the Via Crucis, My hands will always be open to protect them.
11. Since I am crucified on the cross I will always be with those who will honor Me, praying the Via Crucis frequently.
12. They will never be able to separate from Me again, for I will give them the grace not to
never commit mortal sins again.
13. At the hour of death I will console them with my Presence and We will go together to Heaven. DEATH WILL BE
SWEET FOR ALL THOSE WHO HONORED ME, DURING THEIR LIFE, PRAYING
THE VIA CRUCIS.
14. My spirit will be a protective cloth for them and I will always help them whenever they turn to it.
Promises made to brother Stanìslao (1903-1927) “I want you to know more deeply the love with which My Heart burns towards souls and you will understand it when you meditate on My Passion. I will not deny anything to the soul who prays to Me in the name of My Passion. An hour of meditation on My painful Passion has a greater merit than a whole year of blood lashing. " Jesus to S. Faustina Kovalska.
I STATION: Jesus sentenced to death
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Pilate gives in to the insistence of the ferocious crowd who shouts louder and louder: "Be crucified!", And issues the death sentence against the innocent Jesus.
The Son of God is declared guilty by human justice, instead the man is the real culprit of that unjust condemnation.
Jesus is silent and freely accepts to die for our salvation.
O infinite goodness of my God, I ask you for forgiveness of my sins with which I have so often renewed your sentence to death. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
II STATION: Jesus takes the cross
- We love you, oh Christ ...
After the death sentence, a heavy cross is placed on the wounded shoulders of Jesus.
How much ingratitude! Jesus offers man salvation and man gives the Lord a hard cross full of all sins.
He embraces her with love and brings her to Calvary. And when it is raised, it will become an instrument of salvation, a sign of victory.
O Jesus, help me to follow you with love in the painful way of my ordeal and to patiently carry the small crosses of each day. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
III STATION: Jesus falls the first time
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus walks slowly along the painful way of Calvary, but does not stand up to the effort and falls heavily to the ground, crushed under the weight of the cross.
It is not wood that makes Jesus' cross heavy, but the contempt and malice of men.
He has become similar to us in everything, he has made himself weak to be our strength. O Jesus, may your fall be my strength in temptations, help me not to fall into sin, to get up immediately after the fall. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
IV STATION: Jesus meets his SS. Mother
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Mary saw her Son fall. He approaches and sees the holy Face covered with san-gue and wounds. It no longer has form or beauty.
His eyes meet those of Jesus in a wordless gaze, full of love and pain.
It was sins that disfigured the Face of the Son and pierced the soul of the Mother with the sword of pain.
O Virgin Mary of Sorrow, when I suffer and I feel tried, make your motherly gaze help and comfort me. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
V STATION: Jesus helped by Cyreneus
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus no longer bears the weight of the cross and the executioners, fearing that he may die along the way to Calvary, force a man from Cyrene to help him.
The man had sinned. It was right that he should serve, carrying the heavy cross of his sins. Instead, it always refuses, or, like Cyreneus, takes it only by force.
O Jesus, that cross that you carry with so much love is mine. At least let me help you carry it generously and patiently. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
VI STATION: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Overcoming fear and human respect, a woman approaches Jesus and wipes his face covered in blood and dust.
The Lord rewarded Veronica's courageous gesture leaving the image of her Face imprinted on the linen.
In the heart of every Christian there is the image of God printed that only sin can cancel and disfigure.
O Jesus, I promise to live holily to bring the image of your Face imprinted forever in my soul, ready to die rather than commit a sin. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
VII STATION: Jesus falls the second time
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus, weakened by the beatings and the spilled blood, falls a second time under the cross. How much humiliation! The King of majesty and power who created the heaven and the world now lies on the ground oppressed by our sins.
That exhausted and humiliated Body in the dust hides a divine Heart that loves and throbs for ungrateful men.
O most gentle Jesus, in the face of so much humility, I feel confused and full of shame. Humble my pride and make me doable to your calls of love. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
VIII STATION: Jesus meets the pious women
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Among the crowd following Jesus, a group of pious women of Jerusalem, driven by compassion and love, go against him crying his pains.
Comforted by their presence, Jesus finds the strength to reveal to them that the greatest pain in making him suffer is the obstinacy of men in sin. For this reason his death will be useless for many.
O my grieved Lord, I join the group of pious women to mourn your pains, caused by my frequent sins. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
IX STATION: Jesus falls the third time
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus is now exhausted from suffering. He no longer has the strength to walk, he staggers and falls heavily under the cross again, bathing the earth with blood for the third time.
New wounds open on the Body of Jesus, and the cross, pressing on the head, renews the pains of the crowning of thorns.
Merciful Lord, my relapses into sin, after so many promises, are the real cause of your falls. I ask you to make me die rather than again to be offended with sin. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
X STATION: Jesus stripped of his clothes
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Once on Calvary, another humiliation awaits the Son of God: he is stripped of his clothes.
Only those remained to Jesus to protect his body. Now they tear them away from the bad looks of the people.
The most pure victim, in her stripped body, silently discounts our im-modesties, nakedness and impurities.
O Jesus, grant me, for your violated modesty, to atone for all the impure sins that are committed in the world. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
XNUMXth STATION: Jesus nailed to the cross
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus, lying on the cross, opens his arms to the supreme torture. On that altar the immaculate Lamb consumes his offering, the great sacrifice.
Jesus lets himself be nailed to the infamous gallows by expiating our sins in pain. His hands and feet are pierced by large nails and stuck in the wood. How many blows tear that Body of-wine!
O innocent victim, I also want to join you in your sacrifice, forever nailing myself on that cross. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
XII STATION: Jesus dies on the cross
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Behold Jesus raised on the cross! From that throne of pain He still has words of love and forgiveness for his executioners.
Next to the cross, the Blessed Mother, stunned by pain, follows the long and painful agony of the Son and sees him die as an evildoer.
Sin killed Love and for sin the divine Lamb shed his blood.
O Mary, I also want to join you in your pain and mourn with you the death of your and my only Bee, promising you to no longer offend him with sin. Our Father ... the Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
XIII STATION: Jesus deposed from the cross
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
Jesus is detached from the cross and placed in the arms of the Mother. The grieving Maria can finally hold that adorable Body again and cover it with caresses and kisses.
The Mother mourns the Son she no longer has, but above all cries for the sins of men that were the cause of her death.
O Holy Mother, let me also kiss the wounds of Jesus in reparation for my sins and with the commitment to start a new life of love and sacrifice. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart
XIV STATION: Jesus placed in the sepulcher
We adore you Christ and we bless you Because with your holy Cross you redeemed the world.
At the end of the painful way, a tom-ba welcomes the Son of God. Before the tomb closes, Mary and the disciples cast a final glance on Jesus with tearful eyes.
Those injuries to the hands, feet and side are the signs of his love for us. The death, the grave, the whole life of Jesus speak of love, of the incredible love of God for humanity.
O Mary, a look also for me on the wounded Body of Jesus, to imprint in my heart the signs of his crucified love. Our Father ... The Eternal rest ...
Holy Mother, deh! you make the Lord's wounds imprinted in my heart