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Please join me in thinking about our Lord's passion and willing gift of himself. I find this particular sorrow, Mary meeting with Jesus on his was to Golgotha the most poignent moment in her long willingness to say Yes to God, no matter what the cost.

Like her, may we learn to say yes, in the good moments, and even the most sorrowful.

1 posted on 01/15/2005 12:27:03 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
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2 posted on 01/15/2005 12:28:30 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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O Mother Mary,
as Pilate tried your son,
were you in the courtyard
to hear those hateful voices
tear at your heart -
Kill Him!
Crucify Him!
This was your child
they were focusing all their hate on,
your child,
the child of promise
who you had watched grow,
saw bloom into the gift of God
to an undeserving mankind,
the healer,
the teacher,
the sign to be contradicted.

O Mother Mary,
did you see what they had done to him
as they led him out,
beaten and bloody,
crowned with a mockery of a crown,
almost unrecognisable
from the blood and from the bruising.
This was your child,
the child angels announced,
the child who loved his Father so much
he tarried behind at the temple
and almost broke your heart in fear,
the child who healed the wounded
now wounded in so many ways.

O Mother Mary,
did you at that moment pray,
like your son had, the night before,
"O my God, not my will, but yours?"


3 posted on 01/15/2005 5:18:39 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Good post, strong emotional , heart-touching moment.
Good meditation.


6 posted on 01/17/2005 4:31:01 PM PST by Rosary (Pray the Rosary daily)
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7 posted on 01/17/2005 5:31:41 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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