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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Our Lady of Sorrows
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nAMADEUS OF LAUSANNE \n◊◊◊ \nWith deep calling to deep\, two loves had come together into one and from \nthe two loves was made a single love when the Virgin mother gave to her Son the \nlove she gave to God\, and showed her love for her son in loving God. Therefore \nthe more she loved\, the more she grieved and the greatness of her love brought \nthe increase of her suffering. \nWhat was she doing when she stood on Calvary and saw the cross\, the \nnails\, the wounds of the One who was dying in innocence and the insatiable \ncruelty of the Pharisee afire with malice? [Jesus] hung there atoning not for his \nsins but for ours\, and the Pharisees with the Scribes\, mocking him\, struck him \non the head and offered to his lips vinegar mingled with gall that there might be \nfulfilled the prophecy of David\, saying in the person of Christ\, ‘They added to the \npain of my wounds.’ \nIn the midst of this the Mother of God was distressed in mind\, and \nsorrows seized upon her as upon a woman in childbirth. There are groans\, sobs\, \nsighs\, sorrow\, grief\, agony\, distress of heart\, fires\, a death more cruel than \ndeath. There life is not taken away yet the bitterness of death is suffered. O \nmemory to be revered\, full of devotion and tears\, to recall how that glorious holy \nsoul suffered\, and what anguish she endured in the death of Christ. The pale \nface of Jesus reflected the bloodless face of his mother. He suffered in the flesh\, \nshe in her heart. \nFinally the insults and scoffing of the wicked came back upon his mother’s \nhead. The Lord’s death was to her more bitter than her own [would have been]. \nAlthough\, taught by the Spirit\, she would not doubt the resurrection\, yet she had \nto drink the Father’s cup and to know the hour of her own passion. Concerning \nthis\, the venerable Simeon prophesied to her: ‘A sword shall pierce your soul.’ O \nLord Jesus\, terrible in your counsels beyond the sons of men\, you did not spare \nyour mother from the sword piercing her soul. By this road must we all pass by \nthe fiery sword turning this way and that to the tree of life which is in the midst \nof paradise. \nBut to return: Blessed Mary was able to cry out that which was especially \nappropriate to Christ: ‘O all you who pass by\, behold and see if there is any \nsorrow like my sorrow. What a sorrow and how great! And in that sorrow what \nwas Mary like? Alas\, as she was then\, how different from the girl who had once \ntended her son amid a choir of angels while shepherds worshiped and Magi \nadored him with an offering of mystic gifts. Very different\, not indeed in virtue \nbut in sadness\, not in grace but in grief. For she increased in virtue and grew in \ngrace. For set in the midst of adversity she neither relaxed her modesty nor lost \nthe strength of her constancy.
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