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Christ's most sacred body was taken down from the Cross by Joseph and Nicodemus, and laid in the bosom of His weeping Mother.

Consider the sighs and tears of the Blessed Mother, with what pain she embraced the bloody, tortured remains of her beloved Jesus, her baby. Here unite your tears with those of the disconsolate Mother. Reflect that our Jesus would not descend from the Cross until He consummated the work of redemption; and that at His departure from, as well as at His entrance into the world, He would be placed in the bosom of His beloved Mother. With this we learn constancy in our mission! We learn to love, and obey our God. Cleave to the standard of the Cross. Consider with what purity that soul should be adorned which receives, in the blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, Christ's most sacred body and blood.

Thank you God for the many gifts you gave through Jesus. May we learn to love each other, they way you love us. All of us.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

5,173 posted on 06/12/2008 2:23:37 PM PDT by mgist (Thus in Psalm 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hear)
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***Christ’s most sacred body was taken down from the Cross by Joseph and Nicodemus, and laid in the bosom of His weeping Mother. ***

I thought that the Protestant Mary, sinful and the mother of a hundred children all by different fathers, had spent too much time as a barfly and had snuffed it in a dark alley, injecting heroin.

The Theotokos, reduced to irrelevant. Nice theologies that our brethren have created.


5,204 posted on 06/12/2008 3:17:53 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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Christ's most sacred body was taken down from the Cross by Joseph and Nicodemus, and laid in the bosom of His weeping Mother.

Great story but pious fantasy nonetheless.
5,214 posted on 06/12/2008 4:06:17 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
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To: mgist

Quite a reflection.

Consider this as well.

Mary knew at least from the Moment of presentation in the Temple of her 8 day old baby that her heart would be pierced by sorrow.


5,232 posted on 06/12/2008 4:40:09 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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