[mgist]

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.

[MarkBsnr]

***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.

[OLD REGGIE]

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.

[TASMANIANRED]

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.