“Maria, madre mia, Maria, madre nostra, vieni a vivere con noi.”
Mary, my
mother, Mary, our mother, come and live with us.
These are words of a song. Mary suffered under the Cross. She must have felt that remaining in this world without her only begotten Son had no sense. She climbed the mount of sorrow in order to be deprived there of her only Joy for the salvation of the whole world, past and future.
Egoistically speaking, what was left to her
after the death of the Beloved Son? Yes, of course, there were friends and other
women with her, but as the world submerged into darkness, also her heart was
covered by heavy burden of sorrow. She had to rely on her faith in God, so not
to be drawn into despair. She had to elevate her sorowful heart from the earthly condition and think beyond. Only faith can do that.
Jesus prays
in the moments of despair and human weakness. Prayer teaches obedience. As he
suffered, we follow his example, because he is the Way. Mother Mary did the
same. She followed him to the top of the hill, prayed and hoped. God certainly cannot
abandon his Servant like this. Through faith we have to give time and hope to God who leads the history. She gave time to God’s plans
and hoped. She also obeyed to the pain of the cross. Do we have strength to do
the same? Certainly not. Our instinct of survival calls us for reaction, rebellion,
and salvation. But the salvation is only in Christ, on the Cross, founded on the will
of the Almighty. It is so hard sometimes to pronouce " thy will be done", because we fear and know that sometimes it will be so different from the desires of our heart.
Let us cut
into pieces desires of our hearts as Mother Mary did under the Cross and follow the Mother
to the mountain of happiness that one day will appear in front of us.
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