My dear brothers and sisters, this is the 3rd week of Lent, our podcast song is, ‘His Sorrows’, and is based on the ‘15 Prayers revealed by our Lord to Saint Bridget of Sweden’. Taken from the Prayers of St. Bridget: Quote: As St. Bridget for a long time wanted to know the number of blows Our Lord received during His Passion, He one day appeared to her and said: “I received 5480 blows on My Body. If you wish to honor them in some way, say 15 Our Fathers and 15 Hail Marys with the following Prayers for a whole year. When the year is up, you will have honored each one of My Wounds.”Pope Pius IX took notice of these 15 Prayers with the prologue; and he approved them on May 31, 1862, recognizing them as true and for the good of souls. This sentence of Pope Pius IX has been confirmed by the realization of the promises by all persons who have recited the prayers and by numerous supernatural facts by which God wanted to make known their exact truth. A collection of small books, these prayers among them, was approved by the Great congress of Malines on August 22, 1863. These prayers can serve as the Way of the Cross. Unquote. To continue, the St. Bridget of Sweden Parish website states, Quote: Pope Benedict XV said that while belief in the promises is not mandated by the Church, it is permissible to believe in them "out of human faith." Now that we've covered that, let's take a look at these beautiful prayers. Unquote. Then he goes on to say, Quote:  Taken together, they serve as a meditation on the Passion and death of Jesus, focusing especially on the physical suffering He endured. They are beautiful, but intense. Unquote.

Now this song, His Sorrows, came to me through my meditation on these prayers. I learned of these prayers through the weekly Holy Spirit Breakfast I was attending.