Today is the Memorial Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Our Blessed Mother, the mother of the Son of God, loved her Son with a perfect love. She embodied every virtue to perfection. Her love for her Son was a love that was beyond what we could ever imagine. She conceived Him miraculously, bore Him in her womb, gave birth to Him, nursed Him, raised Him and loved Him throughout His life. It’s difficult to even imagine the depth and beauty of the love she had for Jesus. Today's Gospel passage says:“Standing near the cross of Jesus were his motherm and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene”. This loving Mother stood at the foot of the Cross, gazing upon her crucified Son, continuing to convey every motherly virtue. And because it’s hard to fathom the depth of her love for her Son, it’s also very hard to imagine the depth of sorrow and interior suffering she endured as she watched the cruelty toward Jesus unfold. All she could do in that moment was stand by Him and with Him in this moment of extreme agony. Her love was expressed, in that moment, by her fidelity to Him. She was a true Mother throughout her life, and, in this moment, as her Son hung on the Cross, her motherhood culminated in a perfect human expression. Her heart was fulfilled because she exercised her motherly love to perfection. Meditate upon the example of the Mother of God this day. Ponder, especially, all that she would have experienced within her human heart.Ask our Blessed Mother to reveal her heart to you today.