Welcome to our daily rosary 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. 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,

and then almost immediately Mary and Joseph had to flee with their infant son to Egypt

to escape being murdered by King Herod. And 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 forced station of the cross. And the sword did pierce her mother's heart when Jesus was crucified

and died on Calvary. soon after when she received her dead son into her arms as they lowered him down from the cross.

And that sorrow multiplied as they placed him in the tomb. These seven sorrows of Mary signify the way she participated with Jesus in the work of saving our

souls.

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

Our father who arts in heaven, hollow would be your name, thy kingdom come, they will be done on earth

as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. we forgive those who trespass against us and lead

us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women,

blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death,

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