Mary Vitamin
Topic: The Immaculate Heart and the Last Words of Jesus
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Quote:
The Lord from the Cross
"Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
Meditation:
St. John Eudes explains how Our Lady's Immaculate Heart embraced and imitated the last words of Our Lord from the Cross.
"Now what did she do, the Mother of Sorrows, as she beheld her treasure, her most innocent Lamb torn, flayed and slain? She loved Him with a peerless love. Did she cry out against His pitiless murderers? Did she lament of the wrong and injustice wreaked upon Him? Did she implore the eternal Father's justice? No. She remained silent; not a word was heard from her lips; only her stifled sighs, her tears alone were seen. Her most gentle heart fought against the entry of any sense of injury or movement of impatience, or aversion or bitterness towards her cruel tormentors. Her heart abounded with meekness, patience and clemency, so that she imitated her son, Jesus, and sought to excuse the men who with such distorted rage were killing Him, repeating in her heart the words He uttered with His lips, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'"
The Admirable Heart of Mary (Loreto Publications: 2006), 143.
Resolution:
Today, in imitation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I will keep the last words of the Lord in my heart. I will
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repeat often during the day
"Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
Marian Vow:
Fr. Stefano M. Manelli explains Our Lady's presence at the foot of the Cross with words from Lumen Gentium,
"Mary's motherhood became a co-redemptive or sacrificial motherhood, because at the foot of the Cross she stood enduring with her only begotten Son His intense suffering, associating herself with His sacrifice in her mother's heart, and lovingly consenting to the immolation of this victim which had been born of her." (Lumen Gentium, no. 58)
All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed (Academy of the Immaculate: 1995), 336.
I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thanks be to God for graces received.
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