Behold, your mother

Sisters and brothers in Christ, today is the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. 🙏🕊❤️

In our Blessed Mother's sorrows, especially when she stood beside the foot of the Cross and watched her Son - whom she carried in her womb, nursed as a baby, kissed his "owies", and loved so much - died on the Cross, she trusted in God's will and divine providence completely as when she gave Him her Fiat, her yes. Through it all, her love for God and for neighbor never wavered, as difficult as it must have been for her and her family.

For me personally, I am a "momma's boy" and I turn to my Mother Mary in my time of need and she has always interceded for me, wrapped me in her loving mantle, helped me to feel safe and protected, and guided me with a mother's love through the obstacles of daily life. I am so grateful that, while he was on the Cross, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ gave his Mother to us - “Behold, your mother.”

Finally, I love this part from today's Sequence - Sabat Mater:

"O sweet Mother! font of love,
Touch my spirit from above,
Make my heart with yours accord.
Make me feel as you have felt;
Make my soul to glow and melt
With the love of Christ, my Lord.
Holy Mother, pierce me through,
In my heart each wound renew
Of my Savior crucified.
Let me share with you his pain,
Who for all our sins was slain,
Who for me in torments died.
Let me mingle tears with you,
Mourning him who mourned for me,
All the days that I may live."

Through the intercession of Our Lady of Sorrows, may we unite our sufferings with her Son's Passion and Death so that we may merit his glorious Resurrection.

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Gospel of the Day

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.