Shoulders and Crucifix

[AlexBr]

So something happened to me last weekend. I was at a funeral mass for a distant relative and it was at a church I had not been to before. I was meditating upon the crucifix behind the altar. I usually don’t get the chance to meditate on crucifixes because I don’t have one at home (just simple crosses) and at the church I regularly attend we have a metal statue of Jesus holding a scepter. So while I was meditating on the crucifix during mass I felt this weird pressure in my shoulder and I remembered reading something about the greatest wound Jesus suffered was in His shoulder. Then, when I received communion, it went away. Is this something from God or is my mind playing tricks on me? I couldn’t really decide. I’m not sure what to think of this situation.

 

[tweedlealice]

Salutations
Assessing in the Natural world, you were looking up at a crucifix for awhile. You got a kink in your neck/shoulder. When you went down aisle for communion, you realigned your neck. Taking in communion could have been coincidental w muscle relaxation while head realigned.??!
Assessing supernaturally=you were meditating on crucifix. God and you connected. I would assume there would be a warmth felt in your spirit w that kind of communion. The pain could have been a moment of sharing Jesus’s suffering? I never heard of his side pain, being in the shoulder??
I feel there should have been some warmth and peace w a touch from God…
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.
Ephesians 3; 14-21.
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice

 

[AlexBr]

I have a divine mercy prayer book and in it there is a prayer written by St. Bernard about Jesus’s greatest wound in the shoulder. Then I’ve read something about Padre Pio and the shoulder wound of Jesus. (that’s where I heard about these things from)

 

[tweedlealice]

OK. In scripture it mentioms hHis crown of thrones and His hand and feet wounds and His side wound. I’ll believe you?!
God bless
Tweedlealice

 

[Reuben_J]

Maybe it is a gentle nudge, a grace from our Lord Jesus Christ, to tell you that he carried our sins, yours and mine, on his shoulder, and that we are purchased for a price and our ransom being paid, that now because we believe and repent for our sin, we have been set free. If something like that touched you, then good and fine, praise God for being real in your life.

God bless.

 

[AlexBr]

A couple months ago, I was reading about saints and how some of them ( like st.rita) asked to join in suffering with Jesus. I asked God of this too. I wasn’t really sure what I was asking at the time but thought it was probably a good thing. Then I guess my prayer was answered in this way?

 

[Reuben_J]

You must be very brave and love the Lord so much to pray to share his suffering. This is one of the spiritualities that some Catholics often involved in. However, it is nothing unusual as there were saints who experienced Christ’s suffering. One notably example was of course Fr. Pio who experienced the stigmata. However, he was known to have said, the most painful of all was the pain on his shoulder.

Jim Caviezel, who played the role of Christ but wanted to experience it tangibly, in the movie, the Passion of the Christ, dislocated his shoulder as he carried the cross. He was also hit in the abdomen by the whip, which deflected from the protective steel pad during the scourging scene.

Suffering with Christ has its profound spiritual value, so it is not surprising that there were people experiencing it.

As for your prayer being answered, I think it is nothing wrong, if through this you experience God in a more tangible way and to increase your faith.

God bless.

 

[BridgetN]

Assessing in the Natural world, you were looking up at a crucifix for awhile. You got a kink in your neck/shoulder. When you went down aisle for communion, you realigned your neck. Taking in communion could have been coincidental w muscle relaxation while head realigned.

That makes a lot of sense, I get kinks in my neck fairly easily.

 

[tweedlealice]

I don’t want to take the joy out of a Spiritual connection w God. You could always keep a secret joy and wonder. Rejoicing in your faith, that 1. You have a Father, you know about. 2- Your love is true.3–God does want to touch you and will one day in overt or subtle ways.
That wonder is joyful in itself.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice.
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice

 

[Dan_Defender]

St Bernard did indeed say the shoulder wound, which Christ suffered from carrying the cross, was the most painful. Blessed Catherine Emmerich also saw this dreadful wound in her visions. And Padre Pio did suffer the stigmata on his shoulder.

 

[joeybaggz]

A miracle? Probably not. But I am always open to the wonderful possibility that some things that happen out of the ordinary are inspired from above and beyond. It keeps me happy and hopeful. May it do the same for you.