SUFFERING AND SORROW
In the Chaplet of Divine Mercy we pray “For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”
We pray “the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.”
When we see someone we love suffering, we feel sorrow.
We love Jesus and His Mother. She felt sorrow because of his sufferings. As we say the Sorrowful Mysteries, we feel sorrow meditating on His sufferings, and additional sorrow when we consider that she herself felt such sorrow knowing what He experienced.
His Passion is sorrowful to Mary, to us, and to Jesus Himself, as He sorrows considering how humanity “doesn’t get it” and fails to recognize its essence as creatures of God, offenders against God, and its blindness of hatred in attacking and killing the God Who created, loves and redeems them but Whom they will not admit into their mental construct of the world.
