28 SE Solitude of Mary

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Spiritual Exercises - Meditation on the Solitude of Mary
PREPARATION
Let us enter into the presence of God.
1. Opening prayer:
Lord my God grant me the grace that all my intentions, actions and operations be purely ordered to the service and praise of your divine majesty.
Composition of the prayer
Calvary, and Mary at the foot of the Cross. Also the image of La Pieta.
Second Petition: Second Petition:
Lord, grant me to share in the sorrow of your death, with Mary, my Mother, and experience confusion and shame that it was my sins that caused your Passion and Death. Grant me the grace to know deeply in my mind and heart that you died for me.
BODY OF CONTEMPLATION
1. Natural suffering of Mary.
2. Supernatural suffering of Mary.
3. Two ways of sharing the Cross of Christ.
4. The words of Jesus to his Mother.
5. The Redeemer and the Co-redemptrix.
6. The mission of the Virgin completes the mission of Jesus.
7. The words of Jesus to us and the response of the Beloved Disciple.
Behold your mother (Jn 19:27).
CONCLUSIVE ACTS
Colloquium.
End with a time of affective prayer with Jesus, end with an Anima Christi.
Then with Mary, and end with a Hail Mary.
Then with John, end with “St. John, beloved disciple of Jesus and after Jesus, the first Son of Mary, pray for us.”