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.

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, …