Monday, January 21, 2008

"Mary Suffers with Those in Affliction"

That's the title of the Pope's prospective message for the World Day of the Sick for Feb 11, just released ... . http://www.zenit.org/article-21549?l=english.

So much here is so beautiful ...

"Associated with the Sacrifice of Christ, Mary, Mater Dolorosa, who at the foot of the Cross suffers with her divine Son, is felt to be especially near by the Christian community, which gathers around its suffering members, who bear the signs of the passion of the Lord. Mary suffers with those who are in affliction, with them she hopes, and she is their comfort, supporting them with her maternal help. And is it not perhaps true that the spiritual experience of very many sick people leads us to understand increasingly that 'the Divine Redeemer wishes to penetrate the soul of every sufferer through the heart of his holy Mother, the first and the most exalted of all the redeemed'? (John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, "Salvifici doloris," n. 26). (No. 2)

Oh yes O Lord ... oh yes O Mary Mater Dolorosa ...

Oh Momma ... oh Mary ... oh Jesus ...

Oh ...

Charles Delacroix
Feast of St Agnes

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