Seven Words of the Risen Christ
Franciscan Crown Rosary Devotion
During the Easter Season (The Great Fifty Days), from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.
This devotion invites us to meditate on the words of the Risen Christ words of peace, mercy, faith, and mission.
A humble Crown Rosary devotion on the Risen Christ’s words of peace and joy.
How to pray the Franciscan Crown Rosary
Begin with the sign of the Cross (there is no Creed or opening prayers)
1. Announce the Mystery
At the first decade, Say one Our Father.
2. Say ten Hail Mary on each of the ten beads.
3. After each decade
Jesus Crucified and Risen, make our lives
a living Gospel of Your mercy and love.
or
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace .
3. Announce the second mystery & repeat steps 1 through the 7th decade.
4. Say Two Hail Mary's to complete 72 years of Mary's life on earth on the fourth and third
beads from the Cross.
5. Say Our Father on the 2nd bead from the Cross & say Hail Mary on the bead closest to the
Cross for the intentions of the Holy Father.
6. Closing prayer listed below.
Seven Words of the Risen Christ
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Peace be with you (Jn 20:19)
Lord, fill me with Your peace. -
Receive the Holy Spirit (Jn 20:22)
Come, Holy Spirit, guide me. -
If you forgive… they are forgiven (Jn 20:23)
Teach me to forgive. -
Do not be unbelieving, but believe (Jn 20:27)
Strengthen my faith. -
Feed my lambs… tend my sheep (Jn 21:15–17)
Help me serve with love. -
Go and make disciples (Mt 28:19–20)
Send me forth with courage. -
You will be my witnesses (Acts 1:8)
Make me a witness of Your love.
Closing Prayer
Risen Lord Jesus,
fill us with Your peace
and renew us in the Holy Spirit.
Make us humble and faithful like Saint Francis,
that we may love with mercy,
feed Your sheep,
and joyfully witness
to the glory of Your Resurrection.
Amen.
1. “Peace be with you.”
(John 20:19) — Said to the disciples when He first appeared to them.
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples* were, for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
2. “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
(John 20:22) — As He breathed on them, giving them spiritual authority.
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit.”
3. “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven.”
(John 20:23) — Instituting the ministry of forgiveness.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”
4. “Put your finger here… do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
(John 20:27) — Said to Thomas, inviting him to faith.
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be
unbelieving, but believe.”
5. “Feed my lambs… tend my sheep.”
(John 21:15–17) — Spoken to Peter, entrusting him with pastoral care.
Jesus and Peter.
15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter,* “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
16 He then said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you
”He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had
said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”
[Jesus] said to him, “Feed my sheep.”
6. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.”
(Matthew 28:19–20) — The Great Commission.
The Commissioning of the Disciples.
19 Go, therefore,* and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
7. “You will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth.”
(Acts 1:8) — A final charge before His Ascension.
The Ascension of Jesus.
8 But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Br.Carmine D'Orsi
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