SEPTEMBER
Month of The Seven Sorrows
of the Blessed Virgin Mary and
The Holy Cross
Bid me bear, O Mother Blest,
On my heart, the wounds imprest,
Suffered by the Crucified!
An Indulgence of 50 days each time.
Plenary Indulgence once a month under the usual conditions.
The Seven Sorrows of
the Blessed Virgin Mary
1, The prophecy of Simeon
2. The Flight to Egypt
3. Loss of Child Jesus for 3 days
4. Meeting Jesus carrying His Cross
5. The Crucifixion of Jesus
6. The Pieta – receiving Jesus’ Body
The Burial of Jesus
What Can I Say?
By St Anselm (1033-1109)
Magnificent Doctor
Marian Doctor
My most merciful Lady,
what can I say about the fountains
that flowed from your most pure eyes
when you saw your only Son before you,
bound, beaten and suffering?
What do I know of the flood
that drenched your matchless face,
when you beheld your Son,
your Lord and your God,
stretched on the Cross without guilt,
when the flesh of your flesh
was cruelly butchered by wicked men?
How can I judge, what sobs,
troubled your most pure breast,
when you heard, “Woman, behold your son,”
and the disciple, “Behold, your Mother,”
when you received as a son
the disciple in place of the Master,
the servant for the Lord?
Amen
From “The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm with the Proslogion,” Benedicta Ward, trans,1973, Penguin classics, Penguin Group (UK).
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