Ten minutes with Maria Addolorata: the devotion of graces

I. - Not one but a thousand swords pierced the heart of the Virgin Mother! The first was certainly to lose the most beautiful, the most holy, the innocent his Son.

II. - Another pain to think that that divine Blood, instead of saving, will be the reason for damnation. Losing such a Son without saving countless other children who would be damned is an unimaginable agony to the roughness of our soul, but not to the finesse and holiness of his heart: no! May she not add your loss to so much pain!

III. - But more pain must have felt at the thought of those who would have trampled on that innocent and divine "Blood with a life of blasphemies, of impurities and inconsistencies! Yes, really you, really I am one of those! How many benefits I have received from God, how many from Jesus, how many from Mary! Yet I still sin! A mother is all for her children and all for each of them. All his love and pain was for me! And what pain! I am the "pain" of Mary! how I am the "death" of Jesus! It would have cost her less pain to die on the cross herself, than to sacrifice this Son of hers! But with him she offered herself more merit and became our Coredemptrix! «Son, do not forget your mother's moans» - the Wise man advises us.
EXAMPLE: The seven Founding Saints. - One Good Friday, being immersed in the contemplation of the Passion, they had the visit of the Virgin who complains of so many ungrateful Christians towards her Son: «Go into the world and remind everyone how much Jesus and I suffered to save him. Wear robes of mourning and pain as a reminder ». Obedient, they think of setting up an association and pray to Pope Innocent IV to approve this purpose. Thus they became preachers of the pains of Mary and Jesus. Their Order continues its mission today.

FIORETTO: Recite seven Ave today (with arms crossed if possible), thinking of Mary's pains. OSSEOUIO: Suggest that you are no longer Mary's "pain", but her "joy".

GIACULATORIA: With you on Golgotha ​​of the Son beside you, let these eyes weep with tears!

PRAYER: O Mary, Virgin Mother of Sorrows, obtain for us the forgiveness of so many sins that caused the death of Jesus your Son and our Savior; and give us the grace to put an end to so much ingratitude and cruelty, but to be consolation to your Hearts, working to save some sinner