Fr Faber: How Mary could rejoice in her dolours

Devotion to Mary’s sorrows has received the highest sanction of the Church, for it enters both into the Missal and the Breviary.

(PerMariam) — Editor’s note: To mark the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the following is an excerpt from Father William Faber’s book “The foot of the Cross,” taken from a chapter entitled “How Our Lady could rejoice in her dolours.”