The time will come," says St. Bernard, "when Jesus will not be offered in the Temple nor between the arms of Simeon, but outside the city and between the arms of the cross.The time will come when he will not be redeemed with that which is not his own, but will redeem others with his own blood, because God the Father has sent him to redeem his people "
The suffering of the Mother -the sword that will pierce her soul- will have as its only motive the sorrows of the Son, his persecution and death, the uncertainty of the moment in which it would happen, and the resistance to the grace of the Redemption that would cause the ruin of many.Mary's destiny is delineated on that of Jesus, in function of the latter, and for no other reason.
The joy of the Redemption and the pain of the Cross are inseparable in the lives of Jesus and Mary. It seems as if God, through the creatures he loved most in the world, wanted to show us that happiness is not far from the Cross.
From the beginning, the lives of the Lord and of his Mother are marked with this sign of the Cross.
To the joy of the Birth is soon added privation and anxiety. Mary knows from these first moments the pain that awaits her.When her hour comes, she will contemplate the Passion and Death of her Son without reproach, without complaint. Suffering as no mother is capable of suffering, Mary will accept the pain with serenity because she knows its redemptive meaning."Thus the Blessed Virgin also advanced in the pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully maintained her union with her Son until the cross, near which, not without divine design, she remained upright (cf. Jn 19:25), suffering deeply with her Only-begotten Son and associating herself with a mother's heart to his sacrifice, lovingly consenting to the immolation of the victim that she herself had begotten "
Mary's sorrow is particular and proper, and is related to the sin of men. It is a pain of co-redemption. The Church applies to Our Lady the title of Coredemptrix.
We learn the value and meaning of pain and of the contradictions that every life here on earth carries, contemplating Mary. With her we learn to sanctify pain by uniting it to that of her Son and offering it to the Father. Holy Mass is the most opportune moment to offer all that is most costly in our life.
And there we find Our Lady.
Hablar con Dios