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September 15: OUR LADY OF SORROWS: She Did Not Look Away
Our Lady of Sorrows stood at the foot of the Cross and simply would not look away. This feast honors the depth of Mary's suffering as Jesus's mother, from Simeon's warning that a sword would pierce her heart, all the way to Calvary, where she stood beneath the Cross to the very end. Because she knows real suffering, Catholics have brought their own sorrows to her for two thousand years. "That is what real love does. It does not look away." Today's challenge is just the start. Grab our free Family Pack — a sa...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 15th, so join us for Our Lady of Sorrows, she who did not look away. With the foot of the cross, where nearly everyone else had fled in fear, one woman stood perfectly still.
Above her, nailed to the wood, hung her only son. He was beaten and dying, and the crowd was jeering him. She could have run. She could have closed her eyes or hid.
But she did not do those things. she stayed beside him. She watched his last breath. She wept with him. And she did these things because that is what love does. It enters into the sorrows too. Welcome back Sprouts. Today is September 15th, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows,
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