after her dearest children and poor sinners with tender love—for she also loves the child of her sorrows. It is through Mary and with Mary and in Mary that I will go to Jesus and belong wholly to Him. If

obtain for them a joy beyond all their desires, and bring consolation and relief to our loved ones in sorrow and distress here on earth. Mother of the Church, on our journey towards life everlasting, as pilgrims

life of Jesus Christ pass before the eyes of the soul. They are composed altogether of the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries, and they put us in living communion with Jesus through - we could say -

woman, has mercy on Her suffering and promises Her that the Eternal Father will soothe the hour of sorrow with a supernatural strength. “Woman, He Who gave a Saviour to His people, will not lack the power [...] than Judith and Jael. Our God will give You a heart of the most pure gold to withstand the storm of sorrow, so that You will be the greatest woman in Creation: the Mother. And You, Child, remember me in the

the faithful of Sajópálfala, who had made an annual pilgrimage to Eger on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1969, they located the original weeping image in a church in the diocese of Pécs, where a friar

nothing. Together with Joseph, she accepts in silence those mysterious words which predict a deeply sorrowful trial and give the Presentation of Jesus its deepest meaning. Indeed, according to the divine plan

Our Lady of Miracles (Lucca, Italy, 1588) Mary’s Tears (II) Tears are a legacy of the Mother of Sorrows, such an awesome legacy that it cannot be frittered away in the vain affections of the world without

there. But he always managed to find time to meditate or retire to a quiet room to confide his joys, sorrows and fears to the Savior and to His Blessed Mother. The trust that the young Aloysius had in the

Saint John Paul II added the "luminous mysteries" to the three traditional mysteries: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. The luminous mysteries comprise the Baptism of Our Lord, the Wedding at

ous, because this joyous solemnity usually fell on a date when the Church is concerned with the sorrows of the Passion of Christ. They decreed that from that moment onwards, the Church of Spain would celebrate