25th Day — Jesus is placed in His Mother’s arms.

Jesus is placed in His Mother’s arms.

My God, My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me? (St. Matt, xxvii.  46.)

1.  These words must have echoed in Mary’s heart when the Body of her Divine Son was placed in her arms.  She was alone!  Jesus was dead.  She had heard His last cry of agony, and seen the spear pierce His Sacred Side.  She was alone!  Oh, Mary, what must have been thy desolation now that thy Son and thy God is no more!  Listen to her words: “Therefore do I weep and mine eyes run down with water, because the comforter of my soul is far from me.” (Lament, i. 16.)

2.  Watch the Holy Mother as she washes the blood from the Body of her Son!  How she kisses each wound with adoring love!  Amid all her desolation there is nevertheless an underlying fount of joy at knowing that those wounds have wrought the salvation of the world, that in the Paradise of God they will shine like jewels to all eternity.

3.  In this mingled joy and sorrow Mary is especially full of love for sinners, and she loves them because they cost her so much anguish and because Her Divine Son loved them so dearly that for them He suffered and died.  Mary loves me because I am a sinner — this at least may comfort and encourage me — Jesus died for me because I am a sinner.

Oh, give me tears to shed with thee

Beneath the Cross on Calvary.

 


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