Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

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Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa
Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa
GOOD FRIDAY - MARY'S CO-REDEMPTIVE LIFE

GOOD FRIDAY - MARY'S CO-REDEMPTIVE LIFE

From the instant of the Annunciation, Mary's life became one devoted to the workings of the salvation, not motivated by visions of self-glory, but by acts of sacrificial love.

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Michael Haynes
Apr 13, 2022
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GOOD FRIDAY - MARY'S CO-REDEMPTIVE LIFE
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As the hours pass on Good Friday afternoon, Christ’s painful journey to Calvary is complete. Nailed upon the cross he looks down at the Woman, His mother, and in a penultimate act of His redemptive death He gives her to the Church, and the Church to Her. St. John writes: “When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, …

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