Today is the day we remember the sorrows that Our Lady suffered for us...the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In the statue above, found in the St. Aloysius Retreat House, Los Gatos, California, a sculptor reveals his "Pieta". How much Our Dear Lord suffered for us! And how much she, His mourning mother, suffered too!

Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P., writes:

"The way to Golgotha lies through the narrow, torrid, dusty streets of the city; you think of the jostling, jeering crowd, the noise and the tumult; and then in the midst of it all it is as though a silence falls as He meets His Mother: a private silence for these two alone as everything else is blotted out and they are conscious only of each other. That concentration of gaze, that rapt and exclusive attention, is what our daily prayer ought to be."

Notice her absolute attention to Him in every part of the Scripture...her attention to Him in the best of times, like Christmas, and her attention to Him in the worst of times, like when His terrible sufferings tore at her heart. How can we think that she wouldn't understand our sorrows and anxieties? Of course she does! She pleads our case with her Divine Son. 

Mother Mary, pray for us!