Passiontide

There is another feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady on September the 15th. The feast fixed on this Friday in Passion week shows us the divine Mother at the foot of the Cross where Christ is dying (Introit, Sequence, Gospel). “An ineffable union is established between the oblation of the Incarnate Word and that of Mary; the divine blood and the tears of the Mother flow together and are mixed for the redemption of the human race.”

As Judith had delivered Israel by killing Holofernes (Epistle), the Blessed Virgin is our deliverer with Jesus.