In reference to the story of the widow of Naim and her son, in St. Luke chapter 7:
"Our senses and passions, like pallbearers, would carry our souls to the eternal grave. The Church, a good Mother, would mourn without hope, did not Jesus, 'have compassion on her', and call a halt to the funeral march of the human race. 'Do not weep!' Our plight is too much for His human, His Divine Heart! 'Take up thy son'; 'He gave him to his mother'. This mother is the Church who now urges us to prepare for our spiritual resurrection with His glorious Resurrection on Easter Day."
"Our senses and passions, like pallbearers, would carry our souls to the eternal grave. The Church, a good Mother, would mourn without hope, did not Jesus, 'have compassion on her', and call a halt to the funeral march of the human race. 'Do not weep!' Our plight is too much for His human, His Divine Heart! 'Take up thy son'; 'He gave him to his mother'. This mother is the Church who now urges us to prepare for our spiritual resurrection with His glorious Resurrection on Easter Day."
~Fr. Joseph F. Stedman, My Lenten Missal, imprimatur 1941.
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