The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-09-14

Tomorrow of Our Blessed Lady
rounds logy of Marian festivals all compassed within
single week On September we ommemorated the birthday
Mary September H. celebrated the feast of her holy
name; September 15 have the Seven Doors
The sorrows of the Blessed Mother the
prophecy aged Simeon when Our Lord presented in
Egypt the three days the Divine Child when He
twelve years DID, the meeting Mother and Son when Our Lord
His Cross the Cruxon the taking down of the
Sacred Body from the Cross the burial of Our Lords Body
The Holy Simeon who had that
he should not die until he had the Redeemer God made
Man. holy Child arms, land blessed God and
thy word because have thy salvation
which thou before the face of all peoples light
of the revelation of the Genes and the glory of thy people
Israel"
Then Simeon said to Mary Behold this child is set for
fall and for the resurrection of many In Israel and for sign
which shall be contradcted and thy soul sword shall
pierce" surely crushing for the Holy Mother
perfectly than any other Who her Son is
hear that He et for the fall of many that is the saving
deep to Mary hear the words Thy soul
shall pierce" Our Lord suffer and die
From the beginning Mary shared His surng Our Lord
the Man Sorrows His Mother participant in every
sorrow He bore.
Ladys that occasoned by the
flight into Egypt Herod foohy bent hwartng the plan
sought to destroy the newborn Christ ST. Joseph
dvney directed to take the child and his mother and fly
into Egypt and be there until shall tell thee. For Herod
will the child destroy him Doubtless the hurried journey
into Egypt full of trials and inconvenience and the Blessed
Mother distressed that the tender Infant should be sub
Egypt the fact that the mercf Savior who with
land His birth by those He For
Lord Herod too the puppe king who eager
to destroy Him.
three days loss of Our Lord deep to Our
Blessed Lady Despite the fact that Mary knew that Gods Prov
idence was she could
not the terrible pain which true mother feels IN the
mothers and that her Child is the aperfec understand
that His loss must have been the deepest and
most terrible of
The other four Sorrows of Mary all directly connected
with the Passion and Death of Our Redemer There the
sorrowful meeting Mother which contemplate
in the Fourth Station of the Way of the Cross Scripture does
not tell us of this meeting but is tact a O the
stood by the Cross after Our Lord nailed upon it. and certain
y suppose that she Our Lord and made the door
journey with Him to Golgotha.
The deepest of Marys sorrows was unquestionably
seeing divine Son cruced and hang
agony upon the Cross Then she knew to the full the
pierce United with by the special
vocation Blessed Mother shared the Passion
of her Son in most intimate way She was not merely loving
observer torn called sympathy she
entered into very agony of Christ and with Him
in the sufferngs endured for our Redemption.
The sorrow at the Cross reached elimination in the
Death of Our Lord And then came the removal of the
Body reposion in the hat hewed in stone
wherein yet had been laid In these sorowul
heart of Mary felt still the of the piercing
sword.
Now as st. Bernard tells us the Blessed Mother had during
the life of Christ knowledge what He had to do
and suffer do it. Did she not then find soace
such wise as to make enduring agonies
call her Sorrows Knowing did that her Son also her
God she felt more deeply any other human being could
feel the horror of the sin that was perpeated
afflicted by evil the less real for
the living hope that made her able to bear them
The thought of Marys is sautary thought for all
of us It is strong aid to conion powerful support
under trial in pain; 1t is mighty ala 10
virtuous living