(Photo Credit: Nicole Moynihan. 

Window in St. Mary Magdalen Church, 

Drogheda, Ireland)

The Second Sorrow of Our Blessed Lady is when she was asked to get up in the middle of the night to flee into Egypt with her Infant Son. Imagine how she felt! When she had to journey, as an expectant Mother, the many miles to Bethlehem, they could travel openly by day. Now they were fleeing in fear, sneaking out in the night without saying Goodbye to anyone.

"And thus she resigned herself to the Will of God with heroic patience. Learn from the afflicted Mother of God how to endure with resignation the trials which are sent to you. Be not in a hurry to see them come to an end. Do not complain, saying that they are too long, and that God has forgotten you. Faith tells you that this is impossible...Is it not better, then, to abandon yourself to God with a blind submission to His Divine Will?"

~ Behold Thy Mother, Servite Fathers, 1959.