Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. This particular memorial was first placed in the Roman Missal in 1482. It was inserted into the liturgical calendar in 1814 and Pope Pius X later made September 15 its permanent date. At its core, the memorial commemorates what all mothers know and experience: when your child suffers you suffer right along side them. This was especially true of our Blessed Mother Mary. Mary suffered quietly alongside her son. As we honor her suffering today we also take a moment to consider how Mother Mary can help us to embrace the suffering that is part of our lives with the same quiet strength with which she embraced her own.
Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows
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