The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-19
MARY'S SORROWS
DEEP AND SHARP
Father Ryan breaches on the
Seven DoIorS of the Virgin
Mother of Christ.
TELLS OF HER TRIALS
Her Last and Greatest Agony Came
When She Saw Him Crucified
on Calvary.

Father Kelly and Bishop Seaman
celebrated at the 8 and 9 o'clock masses
at st. Msry's Cathedral yesterday.
Rev. d. Slattery said mass al st. Pat
ciated at Bingham Rev. william
Flynn conducted the services at ST.
Mary's academy.
At the II O'Clock mass which was
celebrated by Rev +. s. Hawelka. Rev
W. X. Ryan preached on the seven
Doiors OF the Virgin Mother OF the
savior" He explained that three OF
these occurred during her private life
and four during the public life OF her
SON the last OF which was the scene OF
the crucifixion on Calvary.
st Paul said the life OF our Lord
was embraced in the knowledge OF Him
crucified." said the speaker. The same
IS true Of his mother. whose sorrows
were Identical with those Of her SON.
I'm Calvary Jesus appeals most TO
loving hearts. especially when man
redemption was wrought on the cross
Mary. standing at the foot OF that
bleeding cross, acquires a most sacred
right to the return OF loving grail
tude from the heart Of humanity. Her
sorrows were immense and incOmpre-
hensible-
Man of SORROWS
"The law OF the incarnation Is one.
Jesus was the man OF sOrrOws. He
| might have redeemed mankind by a
! tear. a word. yet IL remained His good
I pleasure to choose the tOiisome way
]
| Him tenderly shared in all His sor-
! rows. From the prOphesy OF Simeon
| in the temple. the first OF the seven
| dOlors. till she watched His last agony
in Calvary. her entire life was sor-
I rowful one
1T Is the nature and essence OF a
/ mother to love her offspring An
I aged mother gazing for the last time
/ on her son about to be executed for
| MURDER. sobs and cries Though JUS
I tice demands the sacrifice. IL causes
| her heart TO beat heavily against her
breast. because she loves him who Is
the blood Of her very soul She is the
poor boys mother.
| place the heart Of Mary in that
bosom. and upon the scaffold place
Jesus. namely, innocence, purity, beauty
and love itself. and one can readily
understand how incomprehensible was
z the abyss OF Mary's last dolor-
Bitter Visitation.
| When death enters a peaceful home
and tears the child from the arms OF
the mother the visitation Is very Bit
ter. Many circumstances multiply the
mothers sorrows. The child was good.
/ or full OF future good promises. or
I would serve as a helpmate TO his aged
parents In their. declining years. These
[ and many other reasons magnify. be-
yOnd measure. the real afflictiOn. But
how could Mary cXaEgerate TO herselt
the irnmensity OF her lOss2 How could
| she check the torrents o. sorrow that
I rushed into her soul from 50 many
/ legitimate sources? As she stood at
the foot OF the cross watching the last
| struggle OF that sublime agony, her
I first and most profound cause OF sOr-
/ row must have been that she could not
die with her son.
when her grief Is greatest she lis
tens TO the SCOTS and blasphemies Of
the bysta nders. witnesses the conster-
nation OF the disciples. hears the lam
I citations OF the women. the dying
I words OF her son. yet she. superior %
her sex. 70 man. 20 mankind itself
| alone with the Godhead stood mo-
tiouless and erect. ST. Ambrose wrote.
7 do not find II recorded that she
was I'm tears Her sorrow, a martyr
dom OF love. reached its climax in
Calvary. There all the sOrrOws she
had tasted by anticipation were re-
newcd with ten-fold viEor when she
beheld the supreme. the divine suffer
ing OF Jesus They flowed over her
like irnpetuous waves sweeping on
ward 60 the ocean They were as a
thousand sharp swords pointed at her
maternal bosom, and as they lacerated
her heart with the sufferinEs and
death Of the Redecmer they literally
gave life TO the world"
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