Mary, Mother of Sorrows
The Fourth Sorrow--Meeting Jesus on the way to Calvary. At the wedding feast in Cana, Mary noticed the embarrassment of the wedding party. They had run out of wine. It was she who would bring this reality to her Son's attention. His response was: "What is that to me. My hour has not yet come." She then tells the servants to do whatever Jesus directs them to do. They fill the jugs with water. Jesus turns the water into choicest wine.
Mary meets Jesus and walks with Him to Calvary where He will fulfill the hour for which He was sent into the world. On the cross, as He is dying, water and blood pour out of His body, as He is surrendering Himself to the will of the Father, our salvation. From that moment on and never again would our "jugs" be empty but would be filled with the choicest of wines, divine grace that leads us into eternal life to sit at the eternal banquet, a banquet which all of us anticipate every day we participate in the Eucharistic liturgy of the Mass.
Faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love: God's love, Mary's love and ours as we continue to accompany others in their sorrows and reveal God's love to the world.
Mary meets Jesus and walks with Him to Calvary where He will fulfill the hour for which He was sent into the world. On the cross, as He is dying, water and blood pour out of His body, as He is surrendering Himself to the will of the Father, our salvation. From that moment on and never again would our "jugs" be empty but would be filled with the choicest of wines, divine grace that leads us into eternal life to sit at the eternal banquet, a banquet which all of us anticipate every day we participate in the Eucharistic liturgy of the Mass.
Faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love: God's love, Mary's love and ours as we continue to accompany others in their sorrows and reveal God's love to the world.
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