MATER DOLOROSA
2. Human and Natural Suffering.
In all those sufferings of Mary consider also their natural and human side. The measure of suffering is the intensity of love. We are pained to quit or lose what we love. The greater the love, the greater the sorrow. With this measuring rod try to gauge the sorrows of Mary. Here was the suffering of a Mother and that should tell you all. A mother's love is the most pure, the most noble, the most selfless on earth. That is why God wanted us to have only one mother. She alone suffices to fill the whole of our life with an ineffable fondling, with a warm kiss, with the satisfying love that sets our heart at peace. How great is the love of a mother, and then how would Our Lady love Her Son! God had placed in Her heart all the tenderness of all the mothers so that She should worthily love His Son. Nothing else was worthy of the Son of God Who wanted to be called the Son of man par excellence. What then would be Her abysmal sorrow on the occasion of the loss of Her Son!
Think also that the Son She had lost was Her only Son. She had no other with whom to console Herself. And that only Son was the best of all, the most loving, as no other man ever loved. On the other hand He was also the most innocent. And yet She was losing Him as though He were a criminal. It was not a sickness, a fortuitous accident that snatched Him away from Her. It was a betrayal, an ingratitude, it was a horrible injustice that reaped His young life in the midst of the most excruciating tortures and in Her very presence!
Think how intimate was that union which prevailed between Jesus and Mary. Her Son was verily Her life, Her all. This will help you to realize the enormous sorrow of the Mother.
Moreover, it is true that sensibility has different degrees, that it varies from man to man, and that the greater the sensibility, the more fierce is the suffering. And Mary, had such a perfect organism and therefore so extraordinarily sensitive, was of such an exquisite sensibility. How great, then, would Her sorrow be when confronted with such ingratitude, with such an injustice! Ponder over these points and you will feel like applying to Our Lady those words of Jeremias: Look and see whether there is a suffering comparable to mine!
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
2. Human and Natural Suffering.
In all those sufferings of Mary consider also their natural and human side. The measure of suffering is the intensity of love. We are pained to quit or lose what we love. The greater the love, the greater the sorrow. With this measuring rod try to gauge the sorrows of Mary. Here was the suffering of a Mother and that should tell you all. A mother's love is the most pure, the most noble, the most selfless on earth. That is why God wanted us to have only one mother. She alone suffices to fill the whole of our life with an ineffable fondling, with a warm kiss, with the satisfying love that sets our heart at peace. How great is the love of a mother, and then how would Our Lady love Her Son! God had placed in Her heart all the tenderness of all the mothers so that She should worthily love His Son. Nothing else was worthy of the Son of God Who wanted to be called the Son of man par excellence. What then would be Her abysmal sorrow on the occasion of the loss of Her Son!
Think also that the Son She had lost was Her only Son. She had no other with whom to console Herself. And that only Son was the best of all, the most loving, as no other man ever loved. On the other hand He was also the most innocent. And yet She was losing Him as though He were a criminal. It was not a sickness, a fortuitous accident that snatched Him away from Her. It was a betrayal, an ingratitude, it was a horrible injustice that reaped His young life in the midst of the most excruciating tortures and in Her very presence!
Think how intimate was that union which prevailed between Jesus and Mary. Her Son was verily Her life, Her all. This will help you to realize the enormous sorrow of the Mother.
Moreover, it is true that sensibility has different degrees, that it varies from man to man, and that the greater the sensibility, the more fierce is the suffering. And Mary, had such a perfect organism and therefore so extraordinarily sensitive, was of such an exquisite sensibility. How great, then, would Her sorrow be when confronted with such ingratitude, with such an injustice! Ponder over these points and you will feel like applying to Our Lady those words of Jeremias: Look and see whether there is a suffering comparable to mine!
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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