Mary Knows Us in Our Deepest Need and Comes to Be With Us

As I've been praying throughout Holy Thursday evening and night and into today, Good Friday morning - I haven't been able to get this image from the movie Passion of the Christ, out of my mind - it is when Mary senses where Jesus is imprisoned in a dungeon beneath her and prostrates herself over the spot in order to be with Him.

O, what similar love does Mary have for each of us!
She knows where each of us is imprisoned (in our sins, fears, past, by the lies we believe, etc...) and she comes to us in our suffering and pain to be with us.

O, Mary, my dearest Mother, thank you for loving us so deeply!

Thank you for coming to us to be with us (daily!) for nearly 39 years in Medjugorje to be present to us in this extraordinary way in this time of grace in which you give us messages that will lead us to freedom!

Mary we consecrate ourselves, our families and these Holiest Days of the year - this Sacred Triduum, to you! May we allow you to lead us ever closer to Your Son by living your messages:
to pray with the heart, especially through:

Making Holy Mass the center of our lives,
Praying the whole Rosary each day
Making a good Confession once a month,
Praying the Scripture together with our family each day, and
Fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, (which can stop wars - so often these wars are the ones that are raging in our souls).

Please know you and your loved ones are in my thoughts and prayers especially during these days of the pandemic and isolation. Please also pray for me and my loved ones as well.

You can watch the full movie, Passion of the Christ, here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4k1uExAOa4

© Janet Moore 2020. All rights reserved. 

Entering into Holy Week -- Jesus' Eager Desire to Be With Us and Save Us!

The Last Supper (Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy (1498), by Leonardo da Vinci).

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When contemplating the Last Supper, Jesus' eager desire to eat this Passover with the Apostles (and us) always moves me.  
It expresses His eager desire to share Himself with us fully in Holy Communion -- to live and move and fill each one of us -- and to save us so we can be united with Him in glory for all eternity!  

May we enter into these mysteries more deeply this Holy Thursday than we ever have before as we ponder His Holy Word, take part in the mysteries at Mass, and by taking a few moments to watch this short music video that has scenes from the movie Son of God. It is a wonderful and beautiful video written and sung by Sean Carter!!! 

It will help you enter into the mysteries of Holy Week, I promise!  

God bless you all this Holy Thursday!

Luke 14:20: 
"When the hour came, he took his place at table with the apostles.15He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover^* with you before I suffer,16for, I tell you, I shall not eat it [again] until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”ⁱ17Then he took a cup,^* gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves;18for I tell you [that] from this time on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”19Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.”20And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you." 

1 Cor 11: 26:
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

© Janet Moore 2015. All Rights Reserved.

Photo Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_of_the_Lord%27s_Supper#/media/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_(1452-1519)_-_The_Last_Supper_(1495-1498).jpg