HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS.
THEME: Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’
BY: FR. DEOTATIOUS CHIKONTWE SMA.
*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Hebrews 5:7-9
Psalm 30:2-6,15-16,20
John 19:25-27
*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
WHITE
*INTRODUCTION*
My Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, which comes immediately after the Feast of the exaltation of the Holy Cross. This is to show us that, Mary, the Mother of Sorrows, had endured the worst that a mother would have to do, in seeing, witnessing and experiencing her own Son’s suffering and death on the Cross.
*FROM OUR GOSPEL PASSAGE*
Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, has always been so attentive to all of us, having been entrusted with all of us as her own children, and she has become our own Mother, loving and caring for us, even from her heavenly abode. This is what we have heard in our Gospel passage of today, when just before He gave up His Spirit, the Lord Jesus told St. John, His beloved disciple, to take care of His Mother, and then He also told Mary that St. John there was to be like her own son, which was actually a symbolic entrustment of Mary to all of us, represented by St. John, to be our own loving mother. Mary has always therefore loved us all just as how she has loved her Son throughout all of His life in this world.
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*WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THE FEAST OF TODAY?*
Todays liturgy is reminding us how Mary is indeed the very sure path for us to follow in our desire to seek the Lord and the redemption in Him. Her great faith and dedication to God, her commitment to the mission and the path that has been entrusted to her are great examples for all of us to follow in our own lives, so that in everything that we do and say, in our every actions and interactions in life, we will always glorify God, and that we will always be obedient to Him and His Law, His commandments and path, in doing what He has called and entrusted to us to do. Let us all no longer be subjected to the tyranny and dominion of sin, evil and death, after everything that the Lord had done for us.
*CONCLUSION*
Let us all remind ourselves and one another of the great and ever enduring love which God has for us, and how His blessed Mother, Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, who is also our loving mother, have always loved us and watched over us. Let us all appreciate just how fortunate we are to have been beloved in such a manner, and we should always ever be thankful for all the blessings and love, the grace that we have received from God and His most generous mercy. May the Lord, and His blessed mother, Our Lady of Sorrows, continue to help us in our journey of faith towards the Throne of God’s love and mercy.
*Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA*
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