{"id":2385,"date":"2006-10-19T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/a-man-of-sorrows\/"},"modified":"2006-10-19T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T21:58:00","slug":"a-man-of-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/a-man-of-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man of Sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/20060915bvmsorrows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20060915bvmsorrows.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/20060915bvmsorrows-thumb.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary are a contemplation of the Face of Christ in His sufferings.  &#8220;There is no beauty in Him, nor comeliness: and we have seen Him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of Him.  Despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and His countenance was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed Him not&#8221; (Is 53:3\u20133).<br \/>\nOne who prays the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary daily, or at least frequently, will grow in the spirit of compunction.  Blessed Abbot Marmion says that compunction is &#8220;an habitual feeling of regret for having offended the divine goodness.&#8221;  He also says that, &#8220;While making us conscious of our offences, compunction gives us also a keen realization of the divine pardon.  It is thus a source of peace and confidence \u2014 a source likewise of joy, humble but profound.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Sorrow Mysteries are, in effect, a form of <em>lectio\u2014meditatio\u2014oratio\u2014and contemplatio<\/em> on Isaiah&#8217;s prophecy of the Passion of Christ.  They are also a way of interiorizing the prayer of the suffering Christ given us in Psalms 21, 30, and 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary are a contemplation of the Face of Christ in His sufferings. &#8220;There is no beauty in Him, nor comeliness: and we have seen Him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of Him. Despised and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rosary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Ct","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}