With Mary, let us bring all our sufferings to Jesus

Today, Tuesday, is the day in which we pray the sorrowful mysteries. Let us meditate on the first sorrowful mystery, the Agony of Jesus in the Garden.

"Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation: For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mt 26:41). 

No matter how sick our soul may be, we should never despair. Let us present to Him all our sufferings, including the most secret ones, the anxieties of our spirit, the tears of our heart, and even the infirmities of our body.  

Let us tell him, with simplicity and confidence, how much we are suffering. The Heart of Jesus is not insensitive to our nature, because He has assumed it. He cannot resist those who abandon themselves to him. It was at the peak of his pain, after he felt abandoned and rejected by his Father in Gethsemane, that Jesus made his supreme act of abandonment. 

If Heaven seems closed to us, if desolation overwhelms us, and even if we think that Jesus has turned away from us, far from giving ourselves over to discouragement, let us throw ourselves into His Heart and, like Him, say, "Father, I commit my soul into your hands, and I firmly believe that you will save us!" 

Meditation written by Sister Bernaud and the Honor Guard of the Sacred Heart

Note: Formed as an Association of the Faithful, the Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart began on March 13th, 1863, at the Monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary at Bourg-en-Bresse, France. The result of much hard work on the part of Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart Bernaud, the Guard of Honor quickly spread throughout the whole world. It focuses on the Hour of Watch, which consists in choosing an hour and offering it each day to the Heart of Jesus, without changing our ordinary activities (work) and uniting the offering of our daily life to the offering of the Blood and the Water that sprang forth from the Wound of Jesus' Heart.