The beautiful woman watched with incomprehensible pain as her Son’s flesh was torn, His hands pierced, and His Body offered as a living sacrifice.
The Man upon the cross was once the young boy she nurtured and raised, His wounded Body the same one that grew within her womb, and His anguished Face that of her beloved only Son.
On the road to Calvary, she is Our Lady of Sorrows, bearing an unbearable pain.
This Lent, we are called to mourn with her.
Devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows is heightened during the season of Lent. In this devotion, we accompany the Blessed Virgin Mary in her grief as she walks with her Son through His Passion and death, offered for the sins of the world.
There are many ways to partake in this devotion. One beautiful way to unite our own sorrows with Our Lady’s is through St. Bonaventure’s beautiful prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows:
O most holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and the death of your divine Son, look upon me with eyes of compassion, and awaken in my heart a tender commiseration for those sufferings, as well as a sincere detestation of my sins, in order that, being disengaged from all undue affection for the passing joys of this earth, I may sigh after the eternal Jerusalem, and that henceforward all my thoughts and all my actions may be directed towards this one most desirable object: Honor, glory, and love to our divine Lord Jesus, and to the holy and immaculate Mother of God. Amen.
Another way to honor Our Lady of Sorrows is by praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays during Lent.
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