Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Memorial of Our Lady Of Sorrows

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 9.15.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

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MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS

JOHN 19:25–27

Friends, we hear in today’s Gospel that, as he was dying on the cross,
Jesus looked to his mother and the disciple whom he loved,
and he said to Mary, “Woman, behold, your son,”
and then to John, “Behold, your mother.”

We are told that “from that hour the disciple took her into his home.”
This text supports an ancient tradition that the Apostle John would have taken Mary with him when he traveled to Ephesus in Asia Minor
and that both ended their days in that city. Indeed, on the top of a high hill overlooking the Aegean Sea,
just outside of Ephesus, there is a modest dwelling that tradition holds to be the house of Mary.

Immaculate Mary, the Mother of God, assumed body and soul into heaven,
is not of merely historical or theoretical interest, nor is she simply a spiritual exemplar.
Instead, as “Queen of all the saints” (another of her titles),
Mary is an ongoing presence, an actor in the life of the Church.

In entrusting Mary to John, Jesus was, in a real sense,
entrusting Mary to all those who would be friends of Jesus
down through the ages.

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+++Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother
and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.+++

Or:

+++Jesus’ father and mother were amazed at what was said about him;
and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,
“Behold, this child is destined
for the fall and rise of many in Israel,
and to be a sign that will be contradicted
and you yourself a sword will pierce
so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”+++

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