The Fourth Sorrow: Jesus meets His Afflicted Mother on the Way to Calvary: And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. (Lk 23:27

I pity you, my afflicted mother, on account of the fourth sword that pierced your heart, in seeing your Jesus condemned to death, bound with ropes and chains, covered with blood and wounds, crowned with thorns, and falling under the weight of the heavy cross which he bore on his bleeding back when going like an innocent lamb to die for love of us. Your eye then met his eye, and your glances were so many cruel arrows with which each wounded the loving heart of the other. By this great grief, then, I pray you to obtain for me the grace to live wholly resigned to the will of my God, joyfully bearing my cross with Jesus to the last moment of my life.

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The Fourth Sorrow of Mary: Mary Encounters Jesus on the Way of the Cross  (John 19:1; Luke 23:26-32)

So they took Jesus, and He went out, bearing His own cross. And as they led Him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on Him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’ For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).

For the 7 Sorrows Rosary pray 1 Our Father and 7 Hail Marys.

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