Year of Saint Joseph
Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"
Our Lady of Sorrows
Saint: Saint Mirin (565-620)
Readings of the Day
RB: RB 2:33-40 Qualities of the Abbot
Mass: Heb 5:7-9; Resp Ps 31 or 1 Tim 3:14-16; Resp Ps 111; Stabat Mater; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
MARY, MOTHER OF COMPASSION,
PRAY FOR US.
In 1963 and shortly before he was elected Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, Basil Hume gave the following meditation on the last words of Jesus found in today's Gospel. You will find the meditation in Cardinal Basil Hume: A Pilgrim's Search for God, p. 114.
Woman, behold your son ... Behold, your mother.
His hour had come
And hers too;
She had given Him life;
Now she stands and watches,
As life slowly and painfully
leaves him.
The sight of it
pierces him like a sword
Her mother's heart.
This is her hour of agony,
one with his.
Her pains
make her mother again,
of sinful humans
born to newness of life
in the death of her son.
SAINT MIRIN,
MARY, COMFORTER OF THE AFFLICTED,
SAINT JOSEPH,
PRAY FOR US.
Today's image: Mother Do Not Mourn For Me, detail, through the hand of Sister Suzanne, ocso.
© Gertrude Feick 2021
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