The Sorrowful Mysteries

[Music] the sorrowful [Music] mysteries I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from then he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church the communion

of saints the Forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and life Everlasting amen Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of

God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be

to the father and to the son son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen the first sorrowful mystery is the agony in the garden in the Garden of Gethsemane the Son of God enters into the psychological and spiritual space of The Sinner Paul the Apostle says Christ became sin that's his mission to bring the light and forgiveness of God into the depths of God forsakenness he's accompanied only by Peter James and John but even those three closest disciples he ultimately leaves behind

he's pressed down to the ground the great spiritual writers of our tradition interpret this as the sins of the world pressing down upon him and he sweats blood Jesus the very Son of God enters into the state of alienation from God he feels the suffering of the lost in that state he offers an anguished prayer father if you are willing remove this cup from me the whole of jesus' life is a battle against the devil culminating in the cross and in the garden the temptation to avoid following God God's will is evident yet struggling against

every Instinct in his body he demonstrates fortitude utterly aligning his will to that of the father yet not my will but yours be done here at the very center of the drama and from the center of the co-inherence of the Divine and human Wills comes this prayer that signals trust in the Divine Providence as we pray this decade I invite you to see the aching loneliness of Christ in the garden as his entry into the psychological and spiritual space of The Sinner and to see his great prayer in the garden as a guide for our

own prayers and a key to Lasting joy and peace not my will but yours be done our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother

of God God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen

Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for

us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus Holy Mary Ary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the

father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of Hell lead All Souls to Heaven especially those most in need of thy [Music] mercy the the second sorrowful mystery is the scourging at the pillar after pilate sentences Jesus to death he has Jesus scourged at the pillar which was a customary torture leading up to crucifixion we know from archaeological evidence and from written accounts what this form of

punishment was like using a variety of weapons and instruments Roman scourers would brutalize their victims Von balazar writes that even those passive aspects of jesus' passion in which he allows himself to be used including the scourging at the pillar are expressions of his active will to give himself up in self-surrender a loving completion of God's promise to his people presenting the scourged Jesus to the crowds pilate says Behold The Man in the delicious iron of John's gospel pilate is unwittingly drawing attention to the fact that Jesus completely acquiescent to the will of his father even

to the point of accepting torture and death is in fact the man Humanity at its fullest and most free throughout this decade of the Rosary I invite you to contemplate the brutality endured by Christ during his scourging and to see his acceptance of suffering as the means through which he conquers sin and redeems [Music] Humanity Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass

against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary

full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee bless blessed art thou among women and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners

now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the

Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of Hell lead All Souls to Heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy the third sorrowful mystery is the crowning

with thorns upon being presented to pilate Jesus is asked are you the king of the Jews a blandly affirmative answer comes you say so the this leads the Roman soldiers to place a purple military cloak on his shoulders a reed in his right hand and a crown of thorns on his head they say hail King of the Jews and they further mock him by kneeling before him spitting on him and striking him on the head with the [Music] Reed but Mark's gospel does not want us to miss the irony that precisely as the king of

the Jews and the son of David Jesus is implicitly be king to those soldiers for the mission of the davidic king is the unification not only of the tribes of Israel but also of the tribes of all the world in a meditation he wrote on this mystery Fulton Sheen calls this mockery of the true king by the soldiers who presume Jesus kingship to be false an atonement for the sins of the Mind such as egotism doubt and pride the key to honor in the kingdom of God is the willingness to suffer out of love to

give one's life away as a gift look at the lives of the Saints it's never about a grandis the ego but rather emptying it out for this decade I invite you to savor the way that Christ absorbs the mockery and hatred of the crowd and thereby reveals the quality of the Divine forgiveness and love [Music] Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass

against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail

Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed

is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners

now now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen hail H Mary full of grace

the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of Hell lead All Souls to heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy the fourth sorrowful mystery is the

carrying of the Cross carrying the cross must become the very structure of the Christian Life Jesus said whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me this saying must have been gut-wrenching to his first century audience for they knew what the cross meant it meant a death in utter Agony nakedness and humiliation they didn't think of the Cross automatically in religious terms as we do for they knew it in all of its awful power yet Jesus places this terrible image at the very center of the spiritual life how

should we take up our own cross we do so by being willing to suffer as Jesus did we carry our cross in imitation of Christ loving what he loved despising what he despised if God is willing to break open his own heart then we must be willing to break open our hearts for others Jesus bore the burdens of the whole world and this is what we must do actively proactively seeking out ways to lighten other people people's loads as we pray this decade of the Rosary I invite you to contemplate the centrality of this journey

of self-sacrifice in the Christian [Music] Life Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the

hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed

art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us s sers now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary

Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen

Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it

was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of Hell lead All Souls to Heaven especially those most in need of thy [Music] mercy the fifth sorrowful mystery is the crucifixion and death of [Music] Jesus Christians have become so accustomed to seeing the crucifix in churches and schools on seasonal greeting cards or worn his jewelry around people's necks that they've lost any sense of how awful and strange it was but to the first Christians the Cross of Christ was

that and more Paul called it a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to Gentiles insinuating that it was sure to bother just about everybody for the first several centuries of Christianity artists were reluctant to depict the death of the Lord because it was just too terrible and yet Paul can say we Proclaim Christ crucified and the entire Christian tradition from Augustine to Francis of AI to Dante to Ignatius of Lola to Trappist monks in the hills of Kentucky has echoed him somehow they knew that writhing figure pinned to his cross is the whole story

what is that story the crucifixion of Jesus is God's judgment on the world and the fullest expression of the Divine anger at sin we are meant to see on that cross not simply a violent display but rather our own ugliness what brought Jesus to the Cross stupidity anger mistrust institutional Injustice betrayal of friends denial unspeakable cruelty scapegoating fear in other words all of our dysfunction is revealed on that cross in the light of the Cross no one can honestly say I'm okay and you're okay in the tormented face of Christ crucified we know that something

has gone terribly wrong with God's creation that we are like prisoners chained inside of an escape proof prison that we are at war with ourselves does this mean that God the father is a cruel Taskmaster demanding a bloody sacrifice to appease his anger no because we also see something else in the brutality of the Cross we see that God himself has come to stand with us shoulder toh shoulder in our dysfunction Jesus crucifixion was the opening up of the Divine heart so that we could see that no sin of ours could finally separate us from

the love of God as we pray this final decade I invite you to savor the strange Beauty And The Mystery of the crucified Son of [Music] God our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and

blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us

sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace

the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of

thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the

hour of our death amen glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of Hell lead All Souls to Heaven especially those most in need of thy mercy Hail Holy Queen Mother of Mercy our life our sweetness and our hope to thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve to thee do we send up our size mourning and weeping in this Valley of

Tears turn then most gracious Advocate Thine Eyes of Mercy toward us and after this our Exile show unto us the Blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus Oh Clement oh loving oh sweet Virgin Mary pray for for us oh holy mother of God that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ amen oh God whose only begotten son by his life death and Resurrection has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life Grant we beseech thee that meditating upon these Mysteries of the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary we may imitate what

they contain and obtain what they promis through the same Christ Our Lord amen [Music]