7 Sorrows, 5 wounds, The Rosary & the Peace of Christ

Matt 10:34 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

Lk 12:51 Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.

12:52 For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.

12:53 The father shall be divided against the son and the son against his father: the mother against the daughter and the daughter against her mother

Phil 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

2 Thes 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

Lynea Bernhard 

1st Grace & peace be with you. Christ is here and the peace he promised also. Make no mistake because the great sacrifice on Calvary was not in vain. The good news, is 'everlasting peace in every place'. It is a peace 'which surpasseth all understanding'. Yet it is not a peace which The world grasps, understands, or accepts. We must follow the example of our blessed virgin Mary the mother of God who , Lk 2:19 "But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart." 

In Lk 1:28-30 "And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God." We ask not what manner of salutation but what is peace is it? So like Mary we too ask, 'What manner of' peace 'this should be?' 

    Yet as we know coming this Sunday we celebrate 'Septem Dolorum Beatae Mariae Virginis',  The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Likewise in Mary's 7 sorrows are 7 joys. What we have are words calling us to see with new eyes a new world. Apocalypse21:1" I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more." Because by human standards torture, treachery, pain, unrequited love and sorrow are failures. Yet they are the story of Christ, our Christ, Our Saviour, our church and our Holy Catholic Faith. 

We must have spiritual sight or else we perish. 

     Hosea loved Gomer yet she loved him not, rather she loved many and spiraled into a decline. She had the sickness of a moth ever returning to the flame. Till she was spent and weakened, sold into slavery where her love of many brought her to ruin. Yet did not Hosea buy her back for 15 pieces of silver? Did he not take her again to wife and deliver her out of bondage?

   

As you connect with Blessed Mary's Seven Dolors, her 7 Sorrows. think of Peace, which passeth all understanding, as Our life in Christ. As we daily pray Our Lady's psalter remember the 5 large beads. They are your 'eyes' to see the peace of Christ. As you day after day pray the rosary realize Mary is the Mediatrix of Graces, to her you must go. She will bring you the place and time to know the peace. She is the spouse of the Holy Ghost, as we are married to this rosary. And like a marriage it is for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health- as you daily merge into the mysteries remember the crucifix on the end and the 5 large beads. 

They are the keys to peace, for they are rightly called, as we all know the 5 wounds of Christ. Feel them in your fingers, in your hands, as they were in his. 

The  4 wounds where the nails went in and the Jn19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water. As you stand with Mary, Jn 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother...19:27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother.  And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. So like John take her as your own. 

And let the blood and water pour over you