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Saturday, Sept. 15, 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS
MATER DOLOROSA - OUR LADY OF SORROWS
Illustrations, from left: Greek icon, undated; Mater Dolorosa, El Greco, 1565; Pieta, Michelangelo, 1496; Pieta, William Bouguereau, 2876; Mater Dolorosa, Carlo Dolci, 1650; Our Lady of Sorrows, prayer card.
For a while there were two feasts in honor of the Sorrowful Mother: one going back to the 15th century, the other to the 17th century. For a while both were celebrated by the universal Church: one on the Friday before Palm Sunday, the other in September. The principal biblical references to Mary's sorrows are in Luke 2:35 and John 19:26-27. The Lucan passage is Simeon's prediction about a sword piercing Mary's soul; the Johannine passage relates Jesus's words to Mary and to the beloved disciple. Many early Church writers interpret the sword as Mary's sorrows, especially as she saw Jesus die on the cross. Thus, the two passages are brought together as prediction and fulfillment. St. Ambrose saw Mary as a sorrowful yet powerful figure at the cross. Mary stood fearlessly at the cross while others fled. Mary looked on her Son's wounds with pity, but saw in them the salvation of the world. As Jesus hung on the cross, Mary did not fear to be killed but offered herself to her persecutors.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/091512.cfm
Day 2 of the Apostolic Visit to Lebanon
Saturday, Sept. 15
NB: #1 (Harissa) is also the location of the Apostolic Nunciature.
HARISSA
08.00 Private Mass at Apostolic Nunciature
BAABDA
10.00 COURTESY VISITS WITH LEBANESE LEADERS
Presidential Palace at Baabda
Separate private meetings with the President of the Republic,
the President of Parliament, and
the President of the Council of Ministers
10.50 MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF THE MUSLIM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
Hall of the Ambassadors, Presidential Palace
11.15 MEETING WITH LEADERS OF GOVERNMENT AND LEBANESE INSTITUTIONS,
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, AND
REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE WORLD OF CULTURE
May 25 Commemorative Hall, Presidential Palace
- Address by the Holy Father.
BZOMMAR
13.30 Lunch with the Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon,
Members of the Special Council for the Middle East
of the Bishops'Synod, and the papal delegation
Refectory of the Catholic Armenian Patriarchate
BKERKE
18.00 MEETING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
Piazza facing the Maronite Patriarchate
- Address by the Holy Father
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