I want to thank everyone for joining Steel Magnificat in our advent series of meditations on the Joys and Sorrows of Our Lady. For anyone wanting to pray the Seven Joys and Seven Sorrows, I’m compiling all my meditations here in one place.
The Seven Sorrows of Mary:
(It is traditional to pray an Our Father and seven Hail Marys after meditating on each of these)
The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple
The Meeting on the Via Dolorosa
The Crucifixion and Death of Christ
The Piercing of the Side and the Lamentation
(end with three Hail Marys for Our Lady’s tears)
The Franciscan Crown (or Seven Joys):
(it is customary to say and Our Father and ten Hail Marys after each meditation)
The Assumption and Crowning of Mary
(finish with two Hail Marys, an Our Father and a Glory Be)
Personally, though, I prefer to meditate on the Sorrows and Joys of Mary all together as they happened in chronological order:
1. The Annunciation
2. The Visitation
3. The Nativity
4. The Prophecy of Simeon
5. The Adoration of the Magi
6. The Flight into Egypt
7. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple
8. The Finding in the Temple
9. The Meeting on the Via Dolorosa
10. The Crucifixion and Death of Christ
11. The Lamentation
12. The Burial of Christ
13. The Resurrection of Christ
14. The Assumption and Crowning of Mary
And Steel Magnificat wishes you and yours a very blessed and Merry Christmas!
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