For the remainder of this day, I strongly urge you to remember Our Lady's pains, sympathize with her and thank her. When she gave her fiat, not only did she say yes to joy, but also to sorrow. How selfless and loving is she to have said yes to suffering the most agonizing martyrdom of all.
While most of us will naturally be inclined to shy away from suffering pains, our loving mother embraced them, just as her Divine Son embraced His own sorrowful Passion. One meditation that can be made on the Mater Dolorosa, is on her most pure tears, shed for her Divine Son. Bl. Catherine Anne Emmerich, who was granted visions of Our Lord's Passion, recounts in the Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, about Our Blessed Mother that during the Scourging at the Pillar: "She groaned feebly, and her eyes were red with weeping."
Yes, her dolors were great; so great that if she had not been preserved by God, her soul would have departed her immaculate body. Yet, even though her sorrows are incomprehensible for us to fully understand, "Her one consolation at the sufferings of her Son was the knowledge that through His death we would be redeemed.*" Next to the Passion of her Divine Son, this is also an image of true love. And so, do not be afraid to approach Our Lady, because she loves you more than you can imagine. Her sorrows are evidence of this. Her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart loves like no other; the Heart of a selfless, patient, understanding and beautiful mother, both inside and out. Go to her; she's waiting for you with open arms, so that she may gently guide you to her beloved Son.
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| "Can the human heart refrain from partaking in her pain, in that Mother's pain untold?" -from the Stabat Mater |
Mater Dolorosa, ora pro nobis, now and always.
-Yvonne Gemma
*quoted from Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother (highly recommended for fostering a devotion to her)
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