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2 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 23rd Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid. There, therefore, because of the Parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus because the sepulchre was nigh at hand’ (John xix, 40-2). It was a new sorrow for the Virgin to have to leave her Son. But there was no…
1 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 23rd Seventh Sorrow . — Yet there was no movement of rebellion in her, no violence of outcry against those who came to take her Son’s body and place it in the tomb. Joseph of Arimathea had brought fine linen to wrap His body (Mark xv, 46). Nicodemus was with him. ‘They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the…
2 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 22nd St. Luke (xxiii, 53) and St. John (xix, 38) give us the detail that Joseph of Arimathea himself took down the body of Jesus from the cross. There is no doubt that the holy women helped him in this, nor that Mary received her Son’s body at the foot of the cross. Thus the Liturgy tells further that when the body of Jesus was brought down…
1 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 22nd Sixth Sorrow . — ‘And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered (Matt, xxvii, 57-8). (continued)
2 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 21st Mary stood at the foot of the cross. She showed no weakening. She was not upheld by the holy women. On the contrary, in that moment she was upholding the whole Church by the irresistible upward movement of her love, strong as death. Standing erect she heard the Seven Last Words that came down from the height of the Cross into the…
1 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 21st Fifth Sorrow . — Death was to break the last of the natural links still remaining mysteriously to bind the Virgin and her Son. ‘And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there’ (Luke xxiii, 33). . . ‘Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and…
2 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 20th But they soon saw that Jesus was too weak and that he might die under the load. When, according to the Synoptic gospels, they were outside the town, ‘they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus’ (Luke xxii, 26). After that Jesus did not carry his cross. He walked…
1 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 20th THE FOUR SORROWS THAT AROSE FROM THE PASSION OF JESUS The external separation of the Mother from her Son grew greater as the Passion proceeded. Fourth Sorrow . — This was Mary’s sufferings while Jesus was making the way of the cross. Pilate had delivered Jesus to the Jews. The Roman soldiers had taken him to crucify him. The custom was…
2 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 19th A thought of her heart, a word uttered by her with the desire to relieve the mildest of human embarrassments — the thought and the word were foreknown from all eternity, and from all eternity the hour was set forward at which Jesus should begin the public preaching of the Kingdom of God. Nothing so great has ever been said, or ever will…
1 of 2 Month of the Seven Dolors of Mary / The Sorrowful Mother ~ September 19th But at the same moment, by a secret illumination with which He filled her heart, He willed her to know that from all eternity the hour of His public ministry had been advanced because of the humble prayer she had just uttered. There is profound tenderness, an infinite delicacy of love half-hidden under the mystery, restraint and even,…