It\u2019s a beautiful thing that the Memoria of Our Lady of Sorrows follows directly after the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross.<\/span><\/div>\nOur Lord\u2019s suffering on the cross is magnified through our Lady of Sorrows. That is her role. She magnifies the Lord. When she says, \u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord\u2019 of course it means she is praising the Lord, but I like the play on words which shows her role in the drama of salvation: she shows God\u2019s glory. She exhibits the work of grace that God wants to do for all humanity. She makes it bigger and clearer to see. In other words, she magnifies the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\nOur Lady of Sorrows announces loud and clear in large print what St Paul says in today\u2019s reading about our share in the suffering of Christ: \u201cEven now I find my joy in the sufering I endure for you. In my own flesh I fill up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ for the sake of his body the church.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWhat a deep mystery this is! That the suffering we endure is an identification with the cross of Christ. Yes, we affirm that Christ\u2019s sacrifice on the cross of Calvary was the full, final, complete sacrifice and oblation, but it is also true that our own sufferings when \u2018offered up\u2019 can be an identification with that one, full, final sacrifice. They are, if you like, part of the continuation and application of that suffering. They are the waves rippling out through all time and through the cosmos of the stone dropped into the pond on Good Friday.<\/span><\/p>\nIn Westminster Cathedral there is a large crucifix suspended over the altar. On the back of the crucifix is painted Our Lady of Sorrows\u2013this is the image the priest sees as he celebrates Mass, and this is the image every priest should carry next to his heart\u2013that as Our Lady suffered in identification with Christ, and as St Paul did the same, so did every saint, and so must we.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a beautiful thing that the Memoria of Our Lady of Sorrows follows directly after the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Our Lord\u2019s suffering on the cross is magnified through our Lady of Sorrows. That is her role. She magnifies the Lord. When she says, \u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord\u2019 of course it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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