Holy Week - The Passion of Jesus Christ
Blessed Mary instructs Sr. Mary of Agreda to write the Passion narrative
Many of the hidden mysteries of Holy Week are revealed in the following chapters in The Mystical City of God provided to Venerable Sr. Mary of Agreda by Blessed Mary for the enlightenment and knowledge of all humanity and their everlasting salvation through the death and Redemption of Christ our God and Creator.
LISTEN -Volume III Book II Chapter IX - Christ our Savior parts from His Most Holy Mother in Bethany in order to enter upon His sufferings on Thursday of His Last Supper
End of Chapter Instructions from Blessed Mary:
"My daughter, as thy soul has been furnished with special gifts of enlightenment, I call and invite thee anew to cast thyself into the sea of mysteries contained in the passion and death of my divine Son. Direct all thy faculties and strain all the powers of thy heart and soul, to make thyself at least somewhat worthy of understanding and meditating upon the ignominies and sorrows of the Son of the eternal Father in His death on the Cross for the salvation of men; and also of considering my doings and sufferings in connection with His bitterest Passion. This science, so much neglected by men, I desire that thou, my daughter, study and learn, so as to be able to follow thy Spouse and imitate me, who am thy Mother and Teacher.
Writing down and feeling deeply all that I shall teach thee of these mysteries, thou should detach thyself entirely of human and earthly affections and of thy own self, so as freely to follow our footsteps in destitution and poverty. And since I do thee the special favor of calling thee aside to instruct thee in fulfillment of the will of my Holy Son and since We seek through thee to teach others; thou should correspond to this copious Redemption as if it was solely for thy benefit and as if all of it would be lost, if thou does not profit by its blessings. So much must thou esteem it; for in the love which caused my most Holy Son to die for thee, He looked upon thee with as great an affection, as if thou had been the only one that needed the remedy of His Passion and Death.
This is the standard by which thou must measure thy obligations and thy gratitude. Since thou then both sees the base and dangerous forgetfulness of men in regard to this benefit, and knows that for these very men their God and Creator had died, it should be thy earnest endeavor to compensate Him for their neglect by thy ardent love, as if the proper return for His benefits was left entirely to thy fidelity and gratitude alone.
At the same time grieve over the blind folly of men in despising eternal felicity and in treasuring up for themselves the wrath of the Lord by frustrating the boundless effects of His love for the world.
This is the purpose for which I make known to Thee so many secrets and my unparalleled sorrow in the hour of His parting from me to go to His sacred sufferings unto death. There are no words which can describe the bitterness of my soul on that occasion; but the contemplation of it should cause thee to esteem no hardship great, to seek no rest or consolation on earth, except to suffer and die for Christ."