SEVEN SORROWS OF OUR BLESSED MOTHER
DAY
EIGHT
V. O God, come to my assistance.
R. O Lord, make haste to help me.
V. Glory be, to
the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.
R. As it was in
the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Taking Down of Jesus' Body from the Cross
Who can describe the sorrow and anguish of Mary's
heart when the body of Jesus was taken from the cross, when her tearful eyes
fell upon His disfigured features! The pure and holy and beauteous form of her
Son was a mass of clotted blood and unsightly wounds; and yet, disfigured as it
was, there shone in His countenance a clear, calm expression of divine majesty.
Now Mary views the wounds of that sacred body; she looks at the gap made in His
side by the cruel spear, and can almost see the Sacred Heart of Jesus, all
bruised and broken for love of man. Before her vision passes in detail His life
and her own. Memory presents to her mind every day and hour of their quiet,
happy life at Nazareth. Is it to be wondered, then, that at this bitter moment
her sorrow was so great that, as St. Anselm observes, she should have died had
she not been sustained by a miracle of divine omnipotence?
Let us pray
Ever glorious Blessed Virgin Mary, queen of
martyrs, mother of mercy, hope, and comfort of dejected and desolate souls,
through the sorrows that pierced thy tender heart I beseech thee take pity on
my poverty and necessities, have compassion on my anxieties and miseries. I ask
it through the mercy of thy divine Son; I ask it through His immaculate life,
bitter passion, and ignominious death on the cross. As I am persuaded that He
honors thee as His beloved Mother, to whom He refuses nothing, let me
experience the efficacy of thy powerful intercession, according to the
tenderness of thy maternal affection, now and at the hour of my death. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death.
Amen.
V. Pray for us, O Virgin
most sorrowful.
R. That we may be made
worthy of the promises of Christ.
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