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Look at post #18 and read this:

One of the men said to the bystanders, "Who is that women in such distress?" And someone answered, "She is the mother of the Galilean." When the miscreants heard this, they jeered at the sorrowing mother in words of scorn, pointed at her with their fingers; and one of the base wretches, snatching up the nails intended for the crucifixion, held them up mockingly before her face. Wringing her hands, she gazed upon Jesus and, in her anguish, leaned for support against one of the pillars of the gate. She was pale as a corpse, her lips vivid. The Pharisees came riding forward, then came the boy with the inscription -- and oh! a couple of steps behind him, the Son of God, her own Son, the Holy One, the Redeemer! Tottering, bowed down, His thorncrowned head painfully bent over to one shoulder on account of the heavy cross He was carrying, Jesus staggered on. The executioners pulled Him forward with the ropes. His face was pale, wounded, and blood-stained, His beard pointed and matted with blood. From His sunken eyes full of blood He cast, from under the tangled and twisted thorns of His crown, frightful to behold, a look full of earnest tenderness upon His afflicted Mother, and for the second time tottered under the weight of the cross and sank on His hands and knees to the ground. The most sorrowful Mother, in vehemence of her love and anguish, saw neither soldiers nor executioners -- saw only her beloved, suffering, maltreated Son. Wringing her hands, she sprang over the couple of steps between the gateway and the executioners in advance, and rushing to Jesus, fell on her knees with her arms around Him. I heard, but I know not whether spoken with the lips or in spirit, the words: "My Son!" -- "My Mother!"

- from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich (She will be beatified on Oct. 3rd)

28 posted on 09/17/2004 11:21:55 PM PDT by nonsumdignus (Is Sainthood your Goal?)
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To: nonsumdignus; sandyeggo

these words are beautiful.


29 posted on 09/17/2004 11:30:41 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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