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Seven Sorrows of the Feast day: September 15 What words can ever retrace the unwritten anguish that rent the sacred heart of Mary as she looked upon her Divine Son hanging on the cross! Every wound in Jesus' body was also a wound in the heart of Mary: every fibre, every nerve throbbing in agony, every pang He suffered re-echoed in her heart. She endured by her compassion a share in all the anguish of His Passion. Why did Mary suffer all this? That she might be our Mother, the Mother of mankind. She who brought forth her Divine Son without a pang suffered many a piercing pang when from the cross her dying Son commended to her the sinful sons of men. That was indeed a motherhood of sorrow she suffered for our sins: for mine. *The faithful who shall perform some pious work, or meditate or pray in honor of the Feast of the Impression of the Stigmata and this during the five Sundays immediately preceding this feast, can gain: Plenary indulgence, on each of these Sundays; the usual conditions are required.
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Updated Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
