Musings on the Passion and the Virgin Mary
As Jesus was carrying His cross on the road to Golgotha where He was to be crucified, He saw His weeping Mother. What a shock! Several thoughts were triggered in His mind. This was the first time He really thought about her. The emotions of missing her thirty-three years of mothering, the grave concern for her being looked after, the pain He suffers for their separation, the pain she is suffering for His actions and His intense suffering of feeling her pains are almost unbearable. However, she communicates to Jesus that she understands that He is “doing His Father’s will.” So Jesus treks onward to Golgotha with the additional concerns for over Mary’s future heavy on His heart.
Jesus was nailed to His Cross on Golgotha. He saw His Mother below. She was with John His apostle. Jesus tells His Mother, “Mother behold your son!” To John He says, “Son behold your Mother!” Jesus has now found a champion to care for His Mother. This action also created a channel for the flow of grace and prayer between God and the people on earth regardless of creed, race or color. Mary becomes the “Intermediary” between God and us.
Mary and her friends take Jesus down from the Cross. O what sorrow! They carry Jesus to a new tomb. Mary helps in cleaning and anointing His body. When she helps wrap Jesus in burial cloth, she sadly remembers when she first wrapped Him in swaddling clothes. Departing from the tomb Mary left heartsick and bewildered as to what would happen next; but John the Apostle takes care of her.
Submitted by Paul D Kearns
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Mar 20, 2008 © modified 09/09/08
