May Mary, who in the freedom of her ‘Fiat’
and her presence at the foot of the cross,
offered to the world Jesus the Liberator,
help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar.
--Pope St. John Paul II
Our Lady listens to our cries and heals our sorrows. We should learn this: when there are difficulties in life, we go to our Mother; and when life is happy, we also go to our Mother to share these things. We need to go to these oases of consolation and mercy, where faith is expressed in a maternal language; where we lay down the labours of life in Our Lady’s arms and return to life with peace in our hearts, perhaps with the peace of little children.
--Pope Francis
Image source: Josef Janssens, Crucifixion, Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium (ca. 1903-1910), https://airmaria.com/2009/04/11/there-at-the-foot-of-the-cross-2/
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