Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns
Spiritual fruit: Moral courage
2 fruits I see: Humility, Strong Mind
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him.
Matthew 27:27
Our Father…
They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.
Matthew 27:28
Hail Mary …
Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand.
Matthew 27:29a
Hail Mary …
And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Matthew 27:29b
Hail Mary …
They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head.
Matthew 27:30
Hail Mary …
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 27:31
Hail Mary …
Lord, my God, I call out by day;
at night I cry aloud in your presence.
Psalm 88:2
Hail Mary …
You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
Psalm 88:7
Hail Mary …
All day I call on you, Lord;
I stretch out my hands to you.
Psalm 88:10bc
Hail Mary …
Why do you reject me, Lord?
Why hide your face from me?
Psalm 88:15
Hail Mary …
All the day they surge round like a flood;
from every side they close in on me.
Psalm 88:18
Hail Mary …
Because of you companions shun me;
my only friend is darkness.
Psalm 88:19
Glory Be…
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Fourth Sorrowful Mystery: The Carrying of the Cross
Spiritual fruit: Patient bearing of our trials
2 fruits I see: Endurance, determination
As they led [Jesus] away they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country; and after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus.
Luke 23:26
Our Father…
A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.
Luke 23:27
Hail Mary …
Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children.
Luke 23:28
Hail Mary …
“The days are coming when people will say, �Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.'”
Luke 23: 29
Hail Mary …
“At that time people will say to the mountains, �Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, �Cover us!'”
Luke 23:30
Hail Mary …
“For if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?”
Luke 23:31
Hail Mary …
[Jesus said,] “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
Mark 8:34
Hail Mary …
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke.
Isaiah 58:6
Hail Mary …
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless.
Isaiah 58:7ab
Hail Mary …
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own.
Isaiah 58:7cd
Hail Mary …
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall quickly be healed.
Isaiah 58:8ab
Hail Mary …
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer,
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!
Isaiah 58:9ab
Glory Be…
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