Together with Mary, let us seek to be sharers in this death which brought forth fruits of ‘new life’ in the Resurrection: a death like this on the cross was infamous, and it was the death of her Son! But precisely there, at the foot of the cross, ‘where she stood, not without a divine plan,’ did not Mary realize in a new way everything that she had already heard on the day of Annunciation?

—St. John Paul the Great

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DIVINE MATERNITY

This sobering Baroque painting touches upon the sorrow of Our Blessed Mother as she mourns the death of her Son.

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