September 15, 2025
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
Lectionary: 443/639
Reading 1
Beloved:
First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers,
petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone,
for kings and for all in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life
in all devotion and dignity.
This is good and pleasing to God our savior,
who wills everyone to be saved
and to come to knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God.
There is also one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus,
who gave himself as ransom for all.
This was the testimony at the proper time.
For this I was appointed preacher and Apostle
(I am speaking the truth, I am not lying),
teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray,
lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (6) Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my
prayer.
Hear the sound of my pleading, when I cry to you,
lifting up my hands toward your holy shrine.
R. Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my prayer.
The LORD is my strength and my shield.
In him my heart trusts, and I find help;
then my heart exults, and with my song I give him thanks.
R. Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my prayer.
The LORD is the strength of his people,
the saving refuge of his anointed.
Save your people, and bless your inheritance;
feed them, and carry them forever!
R. Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard my prayer.
Sequence (Optional) —
Stabat Mater
At the cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.
Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,
All his bitter anguish bearing,
Now at length the sword had passed.
Oh, how sad and sore distressed
Was that Mother highly blessed
Of the sole begotten One!
Christ above in torment hangs,
She beneath beholds the pangs
Of her dying, glorious Son.
Is there one who would not weep,
'Whelmed in miseries so deep,
Christ's dear Mother to behold?
Can the human heart refrain
From partaking in her pain,
In that mother's pain untold?
Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,
She beheld her tender Child,
All with bloody scourges rent.
For the sins of his own nation
Saw him hang in desolation
Till his spirit forth he sent.
O sweet Mother! font of love,
Touch my spirit from above,
Make my heart with yours accord.
Make me feel as you have felt;
Make my soul to glow and melt
With the love of Christ, my Lord.
Holy Mother, pierce me through,
In my heart each wound renew
Of my Savior crucified.
Let me share with you his pain,
Who for all our sins was slain,
Who for me in torments died.
Let me mingle tears with you,
Mourning him who mourned for me,
All the days that I may live.
By the cross with you to stay,
There with you to weep and pray,
Is all I ask of you to give.
Virgin of all virgins blest!
Listen to my fond request:
Let me share your grief divine.
Let me to my latest breath,
In my body bear the death
Of that dying Son of yours.
Wounded with his every wound,
Steep my soul till it has swooned
In his very Blood away.
Be to me, O Virgin, nigh,
Lest in flames I burn and die,
In his awful judgment day.
Christ, when you shall call me hence,
Be your Mother my defense,
Be your cross my victory.
While my body here decays,
May my soul your goodness praise,
Safe in heaven eternally.
Amen. (Alleluia)
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary;
without dying you won the martyr's crown
beneath the Cross of the Lord.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
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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Commentary on 1
Timothy 2:1-8
Paul continues his advice to his young colleague and
companion, Timothy. Today he urges that prayers of petition, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for people everywhere, but especially for those in
authority and government.
According to the New American Bible:
“This marked insistence that the liturgical prayer of the
community concern itself with the needs of all, whether Christian or not, and
especially of those in authority, may imply that a disposition existed at
Ephesus to refuse prayer for pagans. In actuality, such prayer aids the community
to achieve peaceful relationships with non-Christians (v 2) and contributes to
their salvation, since it derives its value from the presence within the
community of Christ who is the one and only Saviour of all (vv 3-6). The vital
apostolic mission to the Gentiles concerning Christ’s purpose of the universal
salvation should be reflected in the prayer of the community (v 7) which should
be unmarred by internal dissension (v 8; see Matt 5:23)”.
Paul urges Timothy that:
…supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings
be made for everyone…
He includes kings and others in authority, so that the
Christians may be able to:
…lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and
dignity.
Although it looks like a very ordinary prayer, the end may
reflect some apprehensions about future developments.
Anyone who reads the Acts of the Apostles knows just how
much trouble the Christians experienced at the hands of civil and religious
authorities. But it is possible that the words were written when the madman
Nero was emperor. He would unleash a ferocious attack on the Christians. And
both Peter and Paul were to lose their lives as martyrs under this crazed
ruler.
But rather than subject rulers to abuse or retaliatory
action, Paul urges that prayers be said for them. Paul’s teaching is also in
line with the advice that we saw from Jesus in a recent Gospel reading about
loving those who hate and persecute us and to pray for them (see Matt 5:43-48).
At the same time, Paul believed that generally legal
authorities should be obeyed and respected. He told the Romans:
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities,
for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist
have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what
God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not
a terror to good conduct but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the
authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval, for it is
God’s agent for your good. (Rom 13:1-4)
Sometimes, of course, doing “what is good” may mean not
obeying an authority and calling for civil disobedience.
Paul tells Timothy to pray with all ‘godliness’.
‘Godliness’, together with ‘godly’, is a key word in the Pastoral Letters and
occurs eight times in this Letter, once in 2 Timothy and once in Titus, but
nowhere else in the writings of Paul. It implies a good and holy life, with
special emphasis on its Source, a deep reverence for God.
To pray in this way is right and acceptable to God our
Saviour, who wants every person to be saved and reach the full knowledge of
truth. The two elements here are really complementary, two sides of the same
coin. To be ‘saved’ is to become the whole person that God wants one to be, and
central to that wholeness is the grasp and acceptance of what is fully true.
The Way of Jesus is a way to wholeness and the Way of Jesus is Truth and Life.
But wholeness and truth are never fully in our grasp. To get there is the goal
of our whole lifespan.
That God wants all to experience this wholeness, sometimes
referred to as ‘salvation’ or ‘redemption’, is surely the only satisfactory
meaning that can be given to the death of Jesus, who died for every single
person. It helps to counteract the ‘selective salvation’ of some who claim that
God has decided whom he will save and who will be rejected. These people appeal
to words of Paul in the Letter to the Romans:
So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he
hardens the heart of whomever he chooses….Has the potter no right over the
clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for
ordinary use?
(Rom 9:18,21)
This is not at all to say that God predestines us to
salvation or damnation, but only that some by their behaviour call out the
mercy of God and others bring about their rejection by their behaviour. God
wants all to be saved, but no one is forced to accept salvation. It is a gift
and a grace offered to all, but not necessarily accepted by all.
Because, as Paul continues:
For there is one God;
there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,
who gave himself as a ransom for all…
That there is only one God is the basic belief of Judaism,
confessed every day by devout Jews in the Shema prayer (Deut 6:4). The Greek
word for ‘ransom’ (antilutron) was used most commonly to describe the
price paid to redeem a slave. Similarly, Christ paid the ransom price of his
own life to free us from the slavery of sin. This was the greatest love that a
person can show, and:
…this was attested at the right time.
By his willingness to die for the whole human race, Christ
showed the human race that God wanted everybody to be saved. He was the
Father’s ‘witness’ all through his life to the love of God for all of us, but
never so supremely as at the moment of his dying on the cross. The Greek word
for ‘witness’ is the same as for ‘martyr’ (martus). Jesus is the Supreme
Witness, the Supreme Martyr.
Now Paul has been appointed “herald and apostle” of this
great message from God made in and through Jesus, and has become a teacher to
the Gentiles “in faith and in truth”. A herald is one given the authority to
make an important public proclamation. In his book, Models of the
Church, then Father (ultimately Cardinal) Avery Dulles SJ lists one of the
models as “Church as Herald”. The mission of Paul has been passed on to all of
us baptised. It is something we have to do both collectively and individually.
And what Paul has been called on to testify is that, through his death, Christ
has bridged the gap between God and humanity and made salvation available to
every person.
Finally, Paul tells them that he desires:
…that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy
hands without anger or argument.
He asks that they lift up their hands reverently in prayer,
with no anger or feuding. A feuding community does not provide a conducive
environment for prayer.
The next verses of the letter will not be read in our
liturgy. They deal with the very submissive role that Paul says women are
supposed to accept in the prayer assembly. Thankfully, we have made some
progress in this area, but we are not the whole way there yet for full
recognition and integration.
So, the reading is telling us that the true Christian spirit
is not to rid the world of those who are the enemies of Christianity. When we
pray, it is not to ask God to punish or destroy our enemies (as was sometimes
done in the Old Testament), but rather to pray that they may change and see
things differently, i.e. see things in God’s way, and become faithful to truth,
love and justice.
We, as Christians, are bold enough to think that in the
message of Jesus, we are on the path of truth, and the lived experience of the
Christian life, especially that of the saints, bears it out. This was what
motivated Paul to be:
…a herald and an apostle.
We, too, are called to the same task.
Let us remember too, not just during Mass, but very
regularly to pray for others, especially those whom we see as a source of
trouble in our lives, people we do not like and who do not like us, people who
seem to ‘have it in for us’—difficult superiors or relatives or work
colleagues.
Praying in all sincerity that God will shower them with his
love, his grace and blessings can really bring about a change in them. This has
been attested to again and again.
Even more importantly, it changes us. It is difficult to
hate a person you are continually praying for. It helps to dissipate anger and
brings a special kind of peace. It changes the way we relate to them. And it is
a relatively easy thing to do. Try it!
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Commentary on
Luke 2:33-35 or John 19:25-27
There are two choices for the Gospel reading. The first is
from Luke’s account of the Presentation in the Temple. While they were in the
Temple, Mary and Joseph met the holy man Simeon, who had been promised that he
would not die before laying eyes on the Messiah. When he meets Mary and Joseph,
he recognises the Messiah in the baby she is holding. He then proceeds to make
some prophecies about Jesus and, addressing Mary herself, tells her:
…a sword will pierce your own soul, too.
He does not specify what that “sword” might be but now we
can see that it particularly alludes to the suffering and death of Jesus which
she witnessed. However, the “sword” can also be applied to the other painful
experiences we remember as the Seven Sorrows of Mary.
The alternative Gospel reading is from John’s account of the
Crucifixion where he mentions that “his mother” was standing by the foot of the
Cross as her Son died. With her were “…his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Also standing next to his mother was “the disciple
whom he loved”.
Seeing them there, Jesus entrusts the ‘Beloved Disciple’ to
the care of his Mother, while telling the Beloved Disciple that Jesus’ Mother
is his also. Some would see in this scene the Mother of Jesus as symbolising
the Christian community. There is to be a relationship of mutual support
between the community and its dedicated members. The community exists for the
well-being of the individual members and each member is committed in turn to
the well-being of the community.
And who was more united to Jesus than his Mother? It is
because of her acceptance of and identification with the sufferings of her Son
that we celebrate her memory today.
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Today’s feast is clearly linked with yesterday, when we
celebrated the Exaltation of the Cross. Only the Gospel of John records that
his mother Mary was present at the Crucifixion:
…standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and
his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. (John
19:25)
In the Synoptic Gospels, women are recorded as standing at
some distance from the cross, but his mother is not mentioned among them. One
can hardly imagine the pain and grief that Mary must have undergone to see her
only Son dying in such terrible suffering over a period of several hours. Mary,
as the first and greatest disciple of her Son, shared in a very special way in
the redeeming death of her Son and Lord.
Devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows flourished in the Middle
Ages. From that time comes the well-known hymn, Stabat Mater, which
we still recite during the Stations of the Cross:
At the Cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Close to Jesus to the last.
Since the 14th century, these seven sorrows have been linked
to Mary:
- The
Prophecy of Simeon—During the Presentation in the Temple, when Simeon
foretold that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary’s heart (Luke 2:22-37).
- The
Flight into Egypt—When Mary and Joseph took the new-born Jesus to the
safety of Egypt to escape the massacre of the children in Bethlehem (Matt
2:13-18).
- The
Loss of the Child Jesus for Three Days—When Jesus was 12 years old, he
accompanied his parents to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. After
being missing for three days, his distraught parents found Jesus in the
Temple in discussion with the teachers of the Law (Luke 2:41-52).
- Meeting
Jesus on the Way to Calvary—A traditional scene, familiar from the
Stations of the Cross, where Jesus meets his mother as he carries his
Cross on the way to his crucifixion on Calvary (but not mentioned in
Scripture).
- The
Crucifixion and Death of Jesus—As the Gospel of John tells us, the Mother
of Jesus was present at the foot of the Cross and kept vigil with her Son
as he died (John 19:25-27).
- Jesus
Taken Down from the Cross—Again, a traditional scene from the 13th Station
of the Cross and also represented in art by the Pieta (though again, there
is no scriptural reference for this scene).
- Jesus
Laid in the Tomb—This is recorded in all four Gospels. The burial took
place close to the place of crucifixion because of the coming Sabbath day.
It must have been a painfully sad moment for the Mother who must have
believed this would be the very last time she would lay eyes on her Son
(Matt 28:57-61; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-50).
By remembering Mary’s sufferings in this way, we realise how
close she was to the redeeming work of her Son. As mentioned, she is his first
and closest disciple. Especially in Mediterranean countries, statues of Our
Lady of Sorrows are traditionally carried in processions on the days leading to
Good Friday.
No feast in her honour was included in St Pius V’s
Tridentine Calendar in 1570. Approval for the celebration of a feast in honour
of Our Lady of Sorrows was first granted to the Servite order in 1667. By
inserting the feast into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, Pope Pius VII
extended the celebration to the whole of the Latin Church in 1814. It was
assigned to the third Sunday in September. In 1913, Pope Pius X moved it to 15
September, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Our Lady of Sorrows is traditionally depicted in art dressed
in black with seven swords piercing her heart. These seven swords symbolize the
chief seven sorrows of her life. Devotion to the Sorrows of Mary inspired the
work of art we call the Pieta, the grieving Mother holding her dead Son in her
arms after he has been taken down from the Cross.
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Monday,
September 15, 2025
Ordinary Time
Let us recollect ourselves in prayer - Statio
Come, Holy Spirit, fill our minds
with Your light so that we can understand the true meaning of Your Word.
Come, Holy Spirit, enkindle in our hearts the
fire of Your love to inflame our faith.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill our being with Your force to strengthen what is
weak in us, in our service to God.
Come, Holy Spirit, with the gift of prudence to control our
enthusiasm which prevents us from loving God and our neighbor.
Prayerful Reading of the Word – Lectio
From the Gospel according to John
19: 25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his
mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
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.
Ponder the Word - Meditatio
3.1. To understand the Reading
•
With your spirit go up to Calvary up to the
Cross of Jesus and try to understand what is happening.
•
From the passage that you have read, ask
yourself what has struck you the most and why.
•
What are the sentiments that this brief passage
has aroused in you?
3.2.
Key for the Reading
Jesus Holds His Own Destiny in His Hand
We are in the middle of chapter 19 of John’s
Gospel which begins with the scourging, the crowing of Jesus with a crown of
thorns, the presentation of Jesus by Pilate to the crowds: “Behold the man” (Jn
19:5), the condemnation to death on the cross, the Way of the Cross and the
crucifixion. In the account of the passion according to John, Jesus has control
in His hand of His life and of everything which is taking place around Him. And
for this reason, for example, we find sentences such as this: “Jesus then came
out wearing the crown of thorns and a purple robe” (v. 5), or the words said to
Pilate: “You would have no power over Me at all if it had not been given you
from above” (v. 11). The text presented in the daily Liturgy
also shows that Jesus not only has control over everything which is happening
to Him but also on what is taking place around Him. What the Evangelist
describes is very important: “Jesus then, seeing His mother and the disciple
whom He loved, said…” (v. 26). The words of Jesus in their simplicity are words
of revelation, words with which He wants to express His will: “Behold your son”
(v. 26), “Behold your mother” (v. 27). These words of Jesus recall to mind the
words of Pilate with which he presented the person of Jesus to the crowds:
“Behold the man” (v. 5). Jesus from His throne, the Cross, with His words not
only pronounces His will, but also that it is truly His love for us and the
fruit of this love. He is the Lamb of God, the Shepherd who gives His life in
order to gather all into one flock, in
the Church. Near
the Cross
In this passage we also find a very important
word which is repeated twice when the Evangelist speaks about the mother of
Jesus and of the disciple whom He loved. The Evangelist says that the mother of
Jesus was “near the Cross” (v. 25) and the disciple whom He loves was “standing
near her” (v. 26).
This important detail has a very deep Biblical significance.
Only the fourth
Evangelist says that the Mother of Jesus was near the cross.
The other
Evangelists do not specify this. Luke says
that “All His friends stood at a distance; so also did the women who had
accompanied Him from Galilee and saw all this happen” (Lk 23: 49). Matthew
writes, “And many women were there, watching from a distance; the same women
who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after Him. Among them were Mary
of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of Zebedee’s
sons.” (Mt 27: 55-56). Mark says that “There were also some women, watching
from a distance. Among them were Mary of Magdala, Mary who was the mother of
James the younger and Joses, and Salome. They used to follow Him and look after
Him when He was in Galilee. And many other women were there who had come up to
Jerusalem with Him.” (Mk 15: 40-41). Therefore, only John stresses that the
mother of Jesus was present, not following Him from a distance, but was near
the cross together with the other women. Standing up, like a strong woman who
has continued to believe, to hope and to have trust in God, even in that most
difficult moment. The mother of Jesus is present in the important moment in
which “Everything is fulfilled” (v. 30) in Jesus’ mission. Besides, the
Evangelist stresses the presence of the mother of Jesus from the beginning of
His mission, in the wedding at Cana, where John uses almost the same
expression: “The mother of Jesus was there.” (Jn 2: 1).
The Woman and the Disciple
In the wedding at Cana and on the Cross,
Jesus shows His glory, and His mother is present in an active way. In the
wedding at Cana it is made evident, in a symbolical way, what took place on the
cross. During the feast of the wedding Jesus changed the water contained in six
jars (Jn 2: 6). Number six symbolizes imperfection. The perfect number is
seven. For this reason Jesus responds to His mother: “My hour has not yet come”
(Jn 2: 4). The hour in which Jesus renewed everything was the hour of the
cross. The Disciples asked Him: “Lord, has the time come for You to restore the
kingdom of Israel?” (Acts 1: 6). On the cross, with the water and blood, Jesus
gives birth to the Church and at the same time the Church becomes His spouse.
It is the beginning of the new time. Both at the wedding in Cana and at the
foot of the cross, Jesus does not call His mother by her proper name, but calls
her with the beautiful title of “Woman” (Jn 2: 19, 26). On the cross He is not
speaking with His mother moved only by a natural sentiment, of a son toward his
mother. The title of “Woman” is a sign that in that moment Jesus was opening
His mother’s heart to the spiritual maternity of His disciples, represented in
the person of the disciple whom He loved who is always near Jesus, the Disciple
who at the Last Supper reclined his head on Jesus’ chest (Jn 13: 23-26), the
Disciple who understood the mystery of Jesus and always remains faithful to his
Master up to the time of His crucifixion, and later on was the first disciple
to believe that Christ is risen in seeing the empty tomb and the linen cloths
on the ground (Jn 20: 4-8), while Mary of Magdala believed that they had taken
away the body of Jesus (Jn 20: 2). Then,
Jesus’ beloved Disciple is the one who
believes and remains faithful to His Master in all the trials of his life. The
Disciple whom Jesus loved has no name, because he represents you and me, and
all those who are His true disciples. The woman becomes the mother of the
Disciple. The woman is never called by the Evangelist by her proper name, she
is not only the Mother of Jesus, but she is also the Church. John the
Evangelist likes to call the Church “woman” or “lady.” This title is found in
the Second Letter of John (2 Jn 1: 5) and in the Apocalypses: “Now a great sign
appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on
her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labor, crying aloud
in the pangs of childbirth.” (Rev 12: 1-2). Therefore, the woman is the image
of the Mother Church which is in labor to generate new sons for God.
The Mother of Jesus is the perfect image of the Church, spouse
of Christ who is in labor to generate new children for her spouse Jesus.
The Disciples Takes the Woman to His
House
If Jesus has left in the hands of the
woman (His mother and the Church) His disciples, represented in the person of the beloved
Disciple, in the same way, He has left in the hands of His disciples, the woman
(His mother and the Church). The Evangelist says that Jesus had just seen the
disciple whom he loved next to His mother.
He told him, “Behold your mother!” (v. 27). The
Evangelist continues: “And from that hour the disciple took her into his home”
(v. 27). That means that the disciple took the woman as a very dear and
valuable person. This again reminds us all that John says in his letter when he
calls himself the elder who loves the lady in truth (2 Jn: 1) who prays for her
(2 Jn: 5) so that he takes care of her and defends her against the Antichrist,
that is, all those who do not know Christ and seek to trouble the children of
the Church, the disciples of Jesus (2 Jn 7: 10).
The words of verse 27 “And from that hour he
took her into his home” reminds us what we also find in the beginning of the
Gospel of Matthew. The Evangelist opens his account telling about the vision of
the angel which Joseph, the spouse of Mary, had in his dream. In this vision
the angel tells Joseph, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary
home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy
Spirit.” (Mt 1: 20). Matthew begins his Gospel with entrusting Mary and Jesus
to Joseph, while John concludes his account with Jesus entrusting His Mother
and the Church into the hands of His beloved disciple!
Questions to Orientate the Meditation
•
What has struck you most in this passage and in
the reflection?
•
On the Cross Jesus has given us everything: His
life and His mother. And you, are you ready to sacrifice something for the
Lord? Are you capable of renouncing your possessions, your likes, desires,
etc., to serve God and to help your neighbor?
•
“From that hour the disciple took her to his
home.” Do you believe that families today continue to follow the example of the
disciple whom Jesus loved? What meaning do these words have for your Christian
life?
Oratio
Canticle of the Blessed Virgin: Luke 1, 46-55
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; because He has looked upon the
lowliness of His servant. Yes, from now on all generations will call me
blessed, for the Almighty has done great things for me. Holy is His name, and
His faithful love extends age after age to those who fear Him. He has used the
power of His arm, He has routed the arrogant of heart. He has pulled down
princes from their thrones and raised high the lowly. He has filled the
starving with good things, sent the rich away empty. He has come to the help of
Israel His servant, mindful of His faithful love -according to the promise He
made to our ancestors -- of His mercy to Abraham and to His descendants for
ever.
Contemplatio
Let us adore together the goodness of God who has given us
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as our Mother, and let us repeat in silence: Glory
be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
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