Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us As We Honor the Sorrows Of Mary

 Stand In The Gap With Us As We Honor the Sorrows Of Mary 9/15/2023

It commemorates the profound union of heart that existed between the Mother of the Redeemer and the Savior, through which she experienced many interior sorrows as a consequence of His Mission, but particularly during His Passion and Death.

The Lucan passage is Simeon's prediction about a sword piercing Mary's soul; the Johannine passage relates Jesus' words from the cross to Mary and to the beloved disciple. Many early Church writers interpret the sword as Mary's sorrows, especially as she saw Jesus die on the cross.

The First Sorrow: The Prophecy of Simeon and Anna

• The Second Sorrow: The Flight into Egypt. ...

• The Third Sorrow: The Loss of the Child Jesus. ...

• The Fourth Sorrow: The Condemnation of Jesus. ...

• The Fifth Station: The Crucifixion of Jesus. ...

• The Sixth Station: The Retrieval of Jesus' Body. ...

• The Seventh Station: The Burial of Jesus.

Jesus promised St. Elizabeth of Hungary her four principal ones:

First, that those who before death invoke the Divine Mother in the name of her sorrows should obtain true repentance of all their sins.

Second, that He would protect all who have this devotion in their tribulations, and that He would protect them especially at the hour of death.

Third, that He would impress upon their minds the remembrance of His Passion, and that they should have their reward for it in heaven.

Fourth, that He would commit such devout clients to the hands of Mary, with the power to dispose of them in whatever manner she might please, and to obtain for them all the graces she might desire.”