Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional.

Today's Friday, April 11th, 2025, the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

first class and white in chapels of the SSPX, third class in violet outside the SSPX.

In this episode, Our Lady of Compassion, The Meditation, 40 Steps to Easter,

a preview of today's episode of the Catholic Mass No. 31,

wide priests wear vestments, and today's thought from the Archbishop.

But first, the collect of today's Mass.

O God, in thy passion, the prophecy of Simeon was fulfilled that a sword of sorrow should pierce the sweet soul of thy glorious virgin Mother Mary.

We reverently recall her sufferings and sorrow.

Mercifully grant us the fruits of the redemption that was paid for by thine own sufferings

through the merits and the prayers of all the saints watching besides the cross.

Our Lady of Sorrows has a specific feast that in September. The Friday of Passion Week

is also commemorated with the title of Our Lady of Compassion. Having been conceived without the stain

of original sin, in virtue of the anticipated merits of the passion, and free from all personal sin,

it seems the Blessed Virgin should not have suffered. Truly, in her case, sorrow and death were not the consequence of sin

as they are in ours, but they had their origin in the intimate bond she entered into with the

divine Savior who was willing to experience suffering and death.

Since Adam and Eve joined together to sin, it was fitting that the new Eve should be associated with the new Adam for the atonement of sin. Now, since the divine Savior willed to suffer for us,

the Blessed Virgin voluntarily agreed to take part in his sufferings.

Although she had nothing to expiate for herself, out of charity, she found that she had much

to expiate for us. While during her life she endured various physical pains, at the time of

Jesus' passion, she suffered above all morally from the evil of sin which was to cause the death of her

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