Devotion to Jesus: our Lord promises the crown of glory and many graces

A moving fact is that Jesus requires a very special cult of veneration, reparation and love for his august head crowned with thorns.

The crown of thorns was for him the cause of particularly cruel sufferings. He confided to his bride: "My crown of thorns made me suffer more than all the other wounds: after the garden of the olive trees, it was my most excruciating suffering ... to relieve it you must observe your rule well".

It is for the soul, faithful to imitation, a source of merit.

"Look at this garment that has been pierced for your love and for whose merits you will one day be crowned."

This is your life: simply enter it and you will walk with confidence. The souls who have contemplated and honored my crown of thorns on earth will be my crown of glory in heaven. For an instant that you contemplate this crown down here, I will give you one for eternity. It is the crown of thorns that will obtain that of glory. "

This is the gift of election that Jesus gives to his beloved ones.

"I give my crown of thorns to my beloved ones: It is the good proper to my brides and privileged souls, it is the joy of the blessed, but for my loved ones on earth it is a suffering".

(From each thorn, our sister saw an indescribable ray of glory rise).

"My true servants try to suffer like me, but nobody can reach the degree of suffering that I have suffered".

From this anime, Jesus urges a more tender compassion for his adorable leader. Let us listen to this lament of the heart turned to Sister Maria Marta in showing her her bloody head, all pierced, and expressing such suffering that the poor woman did not know how to describe: “Here is the One you are looking for! Look at what state it is ... look ... remove the thorns from my head, offering my Father the merit of my Wounds for sinners ... go in search of souls ".

As you can see, in these calls of the Savior, the concern to save souls is always heard as an echo of the eternal SITIO: “Go in search of souls. This is the teaching: suffering for you, the graces you have to draw for others. A single soul that does its actions in union with the merits of my holy crown earns more than the whole community. "

To these austere calls, the Master adds exhortations that inflame the hearts and make all sacrifices accepted. In October 1867 he presented himself to the ecstatic eyes of our young sister with this Crown, all radiated by a shining glory: “My Crown of thorns illuminates the sky and all Blessed! There is some privileged soul on earth to whom I will show it: however, the earth is too dark to see it. Look how beautiful it is, after being so painful! ".

The good Master goes further: He unites her equally to his triumphs and sufferings ... he makes her glimpse the future glorification. Placing them with living pains, this holy crown over her head says: "Take my crown, and in this state my blessed will contemplate you".

Then, turning to the Saints and pointing to his dear victim, he exclaims: "Here is the fruit of my Crown".

For the righteous this holy crown is happiness but, on the contrary, an object of terror for the bad guys. This was seen one day by Sister Maria Marta in an apparition offered to her contemplation by the One who took pleasure in teaching her, revealing to her the mysteries of the beyond.

All illuminated by the splendors of this divine Crown, the court in which souls are judged appeared before his eyes and this happened continuously before the sovereign Judge.

The souls who had been faithful throughout their life threw themselves confidently into the arms of the Savior. The other women, at the sight of the holy crown and remembering the love of the Lord they had despised, rushed terrified into the eternal abyss. The impression of this vision was so great that the poor nun, in telling it, was still trembling with fear and fright.

Jesus said: “The souls who have contemplated and honored my Crown of Thorns on earth will be my crown of glory in Heaven.

I give my Crown of Thorns to my beloved ones, It is a property of property
of my favorite brides and souls.
... Here is this Front that has been pierced for your love and for the merits of which you
you will have to be crowned one day.

... My Thorns are not just those that surrounded my Boss during
crucifixion. I always have a crown of thorns around the heart:
men's sins are as many thorns ... "

It is recited on a common Rosary crown.

On the major grains:

Crown of Thorns, consecrated by God for the redemption of the world,
for sins of thought, purge the mind of those who pray to you so much. Amen

On minor grains it is repeated 10 times:

For your SS. painful Crown of Thorns, forgive me o Jesus.

It ends by repeating three times:

Crown of thorns consecrated by God ... In the Name of the Father of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.