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The month of September is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, the patron of our parish community in Snoqualmie. In St. Alphonsus Ligouri’s book “The Glories of Mary,” he has a long reflection upon the sufferings of our Mother, her Seven Sorrows, and the ways in which she shared in the Passion of her son Jesus.
“Martyrs sacrificed their own life. Mary sacrificed her Son’s life, which she loved more than her own. Seeing her Son’s suffering brought her more torment than suffering the pain herself. How much any mother suffers to see her children in pain. Augustine wrote about the woman in Macabees who saw her seven sons killed. ‘She endured in her soul what they endured in their bodies.’ Mary suffered the scourging, the thorns and the nails. All these sufferings entered her heart. ‘The heart of Mary became a mirror which faithfully reflected all that Jesus suffered.’ (St. Lawrence Justinian) ‘The scattered wounds of Jesus were united in her heart.’ ‘O Lady, where did you stand? Was it at the foot of the cross or were you crucified on the cross with you Son?’ (St. Bonaventure)”
Sorrows are real. Not just for Mary, but for us all. And it is important to remember that we are not alone in them. We have Jesus Christ – God who shared in our humanity, and who ascended the Cross, so that we might not be alone there, and that the cross might not be the end of the story.
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