Behold Your Mother …
Fr. Hugh Gillespie, SMM
I n the context of celebrating the First Saturday Devotion, on the day before Palm Sunday, and the beginning of Holy Week, the Gospel reading has special meaning today. The Gospel was about the gift of the Lord and the gift of His self-giving. At a time when we can not receive the sacrament, we hear about the world, at the time of Our Lord’s Crucifixion, when the world was not seeing what a gift the Lord was offering. The world was focused on a few garments, small things and missing the larger gift of the Lord.
Only after showing us this in his Gospel, as told to us by St. John, does the scene shift to Jesus looking down at the foot of His Cross at His Blessed Mother and St. John.
In other audios you heard that a relationship with Mary is a Necessity. However, when did Mary become Our Mother? Hear from St. John, through Jesus, when Mary became Our Mother!
Listen to the audio and Behold Your Mother!
Crucifixion: Italian Painter: Andrea Mantegna 1457
This altar piece currently resides at the Louvre in Paris, France and is approximately 570 Years old.
Behold Your Mother …
