A Devotion on the Passion of Our Lord dedicated toward Reparation

Several years ago, I was practicing this devotion that required me to meditate on the Passion of Our Lord and pray it for the intention of reparation, this devotion required me to pray these prayers for several years, but I ended up dropping the devotion sometime around when covid started. Today I felt prompted to take up the devotion and try again but, I can't find the prayers and I don't remember what this devotion was called.

All I remember is that there are two versions of this devotion which both call you to meditate on the various aspects of Our Lord's Passion; one has shorter prayers but requires you to say it for several years in order to complete it, the other one takes only one year to complete, but has much longer prayers to say, I, as said above, was praying the former version.

Does anyone know what this devotion is? What it's called?
Sorry for being away so long yet again, I'm just really busy working hard to get my insurance license and the like.

 

I think you’re talking about St. Bridget’s prayers.

There’s one version where you say it for a year and another that’s for twelve years.

I’ll link the one year one.

 

Saint Brigid of Sweden said that the Devotion to saying the Stations of the Cross was the most powerful after the Mass itself, which is quite something. I used to say them every day after Mass but you can't really do this here. I am thinking of setting up a little set in my field outside.

Of all the Mysteries of the Rosary the Sorrowful are by far my favourite.

Years ago I found a lovely big old brass crucifix in a charity shop and bought it. It was one of the best things I ever did. I take it with me to bed at night like a Teddy Bear and it is the very greatest comfort especially when attacked by the devil. Such a comfort.

 

I would say to anyone who is suffering to turn your eyes to the Cross. It is the greatest source of comfort. It takes us from contemplating our own pain to comforting the pain of God. It is a very pure , unselfish act and as such delights God and draws down innumerable blessings including huge balm for sorrow.

I was just watching Mother Angelica giving a Scripture talk yesterday and noticing the huge Cross she wore on her chest. I wondered if it was not a bit much. But I guess Mother Angelica was a lot wiser than me. She was old school.

 

https://www.theworkofgod.org/Devotns/bridget_12years.htm

Here they are on a website if you prefer. At the top of the page you can click over to the one year devotion. I finally got around to printing them out.

 

Recently I had been educating myself a bit on China greening their deserts. It is quite amazing to see the process unfold. In one of the videos they say that they are planting trees which produce roots that can traverse down into the earth 400 feet in search of water. These trees then go on to provide food, which includes water, for the creatures about them. From this, many forms of indigenous wildlife have started to come back. As well, they say the water table is also starting to rise in these areas where the trees have been planted.

I think an analogy between these trees and the tree of the cross is like this. It brings living water, life to those around it. As we pick up our crosses we also grow roots which grow into the living water, helping everything around us. But when no one picks up their crosses, everything becomes sterile like the desert.

The yearning and seeking for Christ, inspite of all trials, is the struggle of life.

 

This is how we win

 

My mother loved Mother Angelica. Many an evening we would watch the reruns of her EWTN show. She especially enjoyed it when Mother would take calls from those who had questions about the Faith, you just never knew how she would respond but her answers were always profound and sometimes very humorous. Mother always wore a big crucifix or in later years a large monstrance, with good reason. Many years ago my husband returned from a tour of duty in the Middle East with a large, extraordinary gold crucifix necklace for me. This piece of jewelry is quite unique and inlaid with rose gold, you would be unlikely to ever find something similar here in the USA. I recall telling my mother that I felt so unworthy to wear the beautiful large crucifix, after all who did I think I was, Mother Angelica? So it was decided that I would only wear the necklace on Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter and it never came out of the box for any other occasion until the day of my mother’s funeral. Our family went to a local restaurant for breakfast after the cemetery, and as soon as I sat down at the table our waitress came over to me and asked if she could see my crucifix. She remarked on it’s beauty, and then pulled out her own gold crucifix from beneath her apron. It was a lovely moment between the two of us that brought me great comfort on such a sorrowful morning. It would not have happened had I not worn the cross that day. Like my mother and grandmother I will always be a very simple jewelry wearer, but a cross, no matter the size or style is a spiritual symbol of God’s love and suffering that is meant to be seen and worn close to the heart.

 

I think every Christian should try to wear a Crucifix. It is the whole Bible, the whole Cathechism, the whole story of the saints, the martrys and the Fathers of the Church all in one little thing. It is our flag , our coat of arms, our family name.

 

Truth.

 

Lovely.

 

Thanks! This is what I was looking for, I've started praying the 12 years one and am thinking of starting the 15 prayers one this coming New Year.

 

Amen! Praise be to God!

 

When I first discovered Mother Angelica I was more than a little bemused by her. I vastly under rated her and just thought she was a nice Catholic nun who said nice pious things. But then as I listened to her again and again I was pulled up short by things she said, they were real gold nuggets of wisdom and holy insight. So I made it a habit to listen to her all the time doing the house work. The more I listened the higher she went up in my esteem.

She reminds me of Fulton Sheen in that she is classic and lasts the tide of time , we can listen to them now all these years later and they are still as fresh as a daisy.

Like Fulton Sheen too Mother Angelica was a living Cross. You have only to glance at them to see they were suffering even as they smiled. The older they got the more they suffered. Still they smiled and laughed.

 

I'm part of an online world wide group of approx. 350 members mediating daily on the last 24 hours of Jesus' life, with each member focusing on an assigned hour with the specific intention of making reparation. This devotion has the ecclesiastical seals of approval, Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur. Meditation on Jesus' Passion is a solid path to holiness, as attested by many saints.

 

Thats so interesting, do you have a link to join?

 

These meditations are from the Hours of the Passion given by Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta. As already mentioned they have the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur. Her church appointed confessor, Fr. Annibal brought these writings to St. Pius X and was reading the hour of crucifixion to him when the Pope interrupted and said these hours must be prayed on ones knees as it is Jesus Christ that is speaking.