This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Ruraltree meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for,

especially the healing of Olivia and Margo through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho.

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Today we remember how Mary suffered with Jesus in his work of saving souls.

But she did not begin to suffer at Calvary when Jesus was crucified.

Oh no. Her suffering began much earlier.

Her suffering began when Jesus was presented in the temple, 40 days after his

birth, when Simeon prophesied that a sword would pierce her heart because her son would be rejected.

Almost immediately, Mary and Joseph had to flee with their infant son to Egypt to escape being murdered by King Herod.

Then when Jesus was 12, he disappeared for three days, causing great anguish in the heart of Mary

and Joseph. And we recall the sorrowful meeting between Jesus and Mary in the fourth station of the cross.

And the sword did pierce her mother's heart when Jesus was crucified and died on Calvary,

and when soon after she received her dead son into her arms as they lowered him from the cross

and placed him in the tomb.

These seven sorrows of Mary signify the way she participated with Jesus in his work of saving the world.

So today we turn to our mother, Mary, with gratitude for all that she and her son suffered for us.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen i am mary full of grace the lord is with

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