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Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Now we celebrate the memorial of our Lady of the Sorrows. We honor the Blessed Virgin Mary and her deep sufferings and the grief during the life and passion of Jesus Christ. We take time to reflect on Mary’s sorrows, a woman who let her trust in God hold her in the darkest moments.
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Celebrating Marian feasts | Our Lady of Sorrows | Seven Sorrows of Mary
Michelle Hamel shares the lessons she has learned as a mother from meditating on the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
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Learn more about our faith | Our Lady of Sorrows
How fitting it is that today’s Gospel follows directly after yesterday’s celebration of Our Lady of Sorrows. For in the passage we just heard, Jesus responds with tremendous compassion for a sorrowful mother, a widow who has lost her only son, a widow whom Christ recognizes as a pre-figuring of His own Mother at the Cross and at His tomb. And in his miracle at Nain of raising her son, Jesus, of course, also pre-figures His own Resurrection.
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Learn more about our faith | Our Lady of Sorrows
When parents leave the hospital with their newborn, it’s one of the strangest moments in life. The nurse hands you this tiny human and says, “Congratulations, you can go home now.” And you think: That’s it? No manual comes with it? No training session? Not even a return policy? One dad told me he drove home from the hospital at fifteen miles an hour, with the mother and the newborn, with hazard lights flashing, convinced that every pothole was a death trap for the newborn. Another mother confessed that she spent the first week constantly checking if her baby was still breathing, until her husband joked, “If you keep touching and feeling the child every five minutes, none of us will ever sleep again.” Parenting begins with this comedy of fear and love. You’re overwhelmed, exhausted, terrified, and yet you would do anything for that child. Simeon’s words to Mary, from Luke's Gospel, “A sword will pierce your own soul too,” capture that same mystery. Love opens you to joy but also to the deepest wounds. Every parent, every spouse, and every friend who has loved knows this truth: to embrace love is to risk being pierced.
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Blessed Virgin Mary | Charisms of Holy Cross | Our Lady of Sorrows | catholic family life
Holly Dodd shares how enduring life’s sorrows, just as our Blessed Mother did, can draw us closer to Christ.
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Celebrating Marian feasts | Our Lady of Sorrows | Seven Sorrows | family prayer
Catholic Mom contributor, Sherry Hayes-Peirce, shares a modern look at the Seven Sorrows of Mary, a devotion the Church promotes each September.
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