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Topic: The Third Sorrowful Mystery & Profound Humility - The Crowning with Thorns
(In honor of the month of the Precious Blood)

Quote:
“Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, they mocked him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.“ - Matthew 27: 29-31 (more…)

Topic: The Second Sorrowful Mystery - Scourging at the Pillar
(In honor of the month of the Precious Blood)

Quote:
“[Pilate said] ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.’ And the whole people said in reply, ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children.’Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified.” - St Matthew 27:24-26 (more…)

Topic: The First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary
(In honor of the month of the Precious Blood)

Quote:
“And there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer. And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.” (more…)

Topic: The Magnificat - Canticle of the Immaculate Heart

Quote:
“I call the Magnificat the true canticle of the most Holy Heart of the Blessed Virgin[because] it originated in her Immaculate Heart and its melody vibrated her heart strings before it found voice on her lips.” - St. John Eudes (more…)

Topic: First Mark of True Devotion to Mary

Quote:
“First, true devotion to Our Lady is interior, that is, it comes from within the mind and the heart and follows from the esteem in which we hold her, the high regard we have for her greatness, and the love we bear her.” - St. Louis de Montfort (more…)

Topic: Giving All to Mary

Quote:
“By this practice, faithfully observed, you will give Jesus more glory in a month, than by any other practice, however difficult, in many years.” - ? St. Louis de Montfort (more…)

Topic: The Will of God & the Will of the Immaculate are One

Quote:
“Let us turn our gaze towards Jesus, our most perfect model. He who is God, supreme holiness, gives himself to the Immaculate without reserve and becomes her son.” - St. Maximilian Kolbe (more…)

Topic: Praying with Our Lady

Quote:
“Someone truly in love with Mary finds time to turn to her as often as possible, to stay as long as possible at her feet. We would entrust our troubles and worries, and our whole life to her.” - St. Maximilian Kolbe (more…)

Topic: Consecration to Our Lady

Quote:
“[Consecration to Our Lady] means to sink our roots in Mary’s Heart with the happy certainty that he who plants his roots in Mary becomes holy” - St. Bonaventure (more…)

Ave Maria!

Topic: The Fourteenth station €“ The Entombment

Quote:
St. Mary Margaret
€œThe cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.€?
The Thoughts and Saying of Saint Margaret Mary, (Tan Books: 1986), 79.

Meditation:
St. Francis of Assisi
€œBlessed is that servant who stores up in heaven the

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Ave Maria!

Topic: The Thirteenth Station €“ Jesus is taken down from the Cross

Quote:
Father Faber
€œShe remembers the midnight-hour when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her at Nazareth. Now it is the Eternal Son who is so strangely overshadowing His kneeling Mother.€?
Father Faber, The Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books: 1978), 300.

Meditation:
Fr. Faber
€˜[Nicodemus and St. Joseph of Arimethea] approached our Blessed Lady with the profoundest

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Ave Maria!

Topic: The Twelfth Station - Jesus Dies on the Cross

Quote:
John Paul II€™s prayer which concludes the Encyclical
Veritatits Splendor

“O Mary,
Mother of Mercy,
watch over all people,
that the Cross of Christ (more…)

Ave Maria!

Topic: The Eleventh Station €“ Jesus is nailed to the Cross

Quote:
Fr. Faber
€œIt is her place to console, not to be consoled. Her Son came to minister, not to be ministered to. She must participate in the same sublime office.€?
Father Faber, At the Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books: 1978), 217.

Resolution (comes first today):
Please help me Mother Mary to stand with your courage,

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Ave Maria!

Topic: The Tenth Station - Jesus is stripped of His garments

Quote:
St. Katharine Drexel
€œO incomprehensible Love! May I be covered over by the seamless garment woven so lovingly by Our Lady. May she cover me with it so that I may see God€™s Will in all that happens.€?
Praying with Mother Katharine Drexel, 16

Meditation:
Quote:
St. Therese
€œO my Beloved, no one had this right over you and yet (more…)

Ave Maria!

Topic: Ninth Station - The Third Fall of Christ

Quote:
Fr. Faber
€œSo completely was she clothed in holiness from head to foot, that it never so much as occurred to her to think that the load might be lightened, or the pangs mitigated, or the circumstances be more tolerably disposed. When we have comitted ourselves to God, we have committed ourselves to more than we know.€?
Father Faber, At the Foot of the Cross, (Tan Books: 1978), 223.

Meditation:
St. Maximilian Kolbe
€œWhen a soul attributes to itself what comes from God (more…)