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The Promises Prayer to
According to the visions of St. Bridget of Sweden

(1303–1373) Our Blessed Mother promises to grant Our Lady of Sorrows Our Lady
of
seven graces to those who honor her and draw near to by St. Bridget
her and her Son every day by meditating on her dolors
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate Mother of
(sorrows) and entering into her grief.
God, who didst endure a martyrdom of love and grief,
beholding the sufferings and sorrows of Jesus! Thou
didst co-operate in the benefit of my redemption by thy
Seven Sorrows
innumerable afflictions and by offering to the Eternal
Father His only-begotten Son as a holocaust and victim
of propitiation for my sins.
I thank thee for the unspeakable love which led
thee to deprive thyself of the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus,
true God and true Man, to save me, a sinner.
Oh! make use of the unfailing intercession of
• "I will grant peace to their families." thy sorrows with the Father and the Son. that I may
• "They will be enlightened about the divine steadfastly amend my life and never again crucify my
Mysteries." loving Redeemer by new sins; arid that, persevering till
death in His grace, I may obtain eternal life through the
• "I will console them in their pains and will merits of His Cross and Passion. Amen.
accompany them in their work."
• "I will give them as much as they ask for as
long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my
divine Son or the sanctification of their souls."
• "I will defend them in their spiritual battles
with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at
every instant of their lives."
• "I will visibly help them at the moment of
their death — they will see the face of their mother."
• "I have obtained this grace from my divine MILITIA IMMACULATÆ
Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my
tears and dolors will be taken directly from this
earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins
will be forgiven and my Son will be their eternal
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I. The Prophecy of Simeon (Lk 2:22–35) V. The Crucifixion and Jesus Dies on the Cross
The Seven Sorrows

How great was the shock to Mary's Heart (Mark 15:22, 34; John 19:18, 25–27; Luke 23:46)
at hearing the sorrowful words, in which Look to Calvary, whereon are raised
holy Simeon told the bitter Passion two altars of sacrifice, one on the
and death of her sweet Jesus, since
in that same moment she realized
of the Blessed Virgin Mary body of Jesus, the other on the heart
of Mary. Sad is the sight of that
in her mind all the insults, blows, dear Mother drowned in a sea of
and torments which the impious woe, seeing her beloved Son, part
men were to offer to the Redeemer of of her very self, cruelly nailed to
the world. But a still sharper sword the shameful tree of the cross.
pierced her soul. It was the thought of How every blow of the hammer,
men's ingratitude to her beloved Son. how every stripe which fell on
Now consider that because of your sins the Saviour's form, fell also on the
you are unhappily among the ungrateful. disconsolate spirit of the Virgin.
II. The Flight into Egypt (Mt 2:13–21) VI. The Taking down of the Body of Jesus from the Cross
Herod the King seeks to kill the Child. (John 19:31–34, 38; Lam 1:12)
Warned in sleep by an angel, Joseph takes Consider the most bitter sorrow which
Jesus and His Mother Mary, setting out rent the soul of Mary, when she saw the
for Egypt. What anguish was hers, dead body of her dear Jesus on her
in leaving Judea, lest she should be knees, covered with blood, all torn
overtaken by the soldiers of the cruel with deep wounds. Who would not
king! How great her privations in that pity thee? Whose heart would not
long journey! What sufferings she be softened, seeing affliction which
bore in that land of exile, what sorrow would move a stone? Behold John
amid that people given to idolatry! But not to be comforted, Magdalen and
consider how often you have renewed the other Mary in deep affliction, and
that bitter grief of Mary, when your sins Nicodemus, who can scarcely bear
have caused her Son to flee from your heart. her sorrow.
III. Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple (Lk 2:41–50) IV. The Meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way VII. Jesus is Laid in the Tomb
How dread was the grief of Mary, when of the Cross (John 19:1; Luke 23:26–32) (Matt. 27:59; John 19:38–42; Mark 15:46; Luke 27:55–56)
she saw that she had lost her beloved Son! Mother, so tender and loving, meets her Consider the sighs which burst from
And as if to increase her sorrow, when beloved Son, meets Him amid an impious Mary's sad heart when she saw her
she sought Him diligently among her rabble, who drag Him to a cruel death, beloved Jesus laid within the tomb.
kinsfolk and acquaintance, she could wounded, torn by stripes, crowned with What grief was hers when she saw the
hear no tidings of Him. She forthwith thorns, streaming with blood, bearing His stone lifted to cover that sacred tomb!
returned to Jerusalem, and for three heavy cross. Ah, consider, my soul, the She gazed a last time on the lifeless
long days sought Him sorrowing. Great grief of the blessed Virgin thus beholding body of her Son, and could scarce
be your confusion, O my soul, who has her Son! Who would not weep at seeing detach her eyes from those gaping
so often lost your Jesus by your sins, this Mother's grief? But who has been the wounds. And when the great stone
and has given no heed to seek Him at cause of such woe? I, it is I, who with my was rolled to the door of the sepulcher,
once, a sign that you make very little or no sins have so cruelly wounded the heart of oh, then indeed her heart seemed torn
account of the precious treasure of divine love. my sorrowing Mother! from her body!

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According to the visions of St. Bridget of Sweden

The Seven Sorrows

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