Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother Quotes

“When the aged Tobias of the Old Testament felt his end drawing near, he called his son and gave him wise counsels. Regarding his mother, he admonished him in this touching manner: “Honour thy mother all the days of her life: for thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee.”
― Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother

“Yet no complaint or cry escaped her blanched lips. With heroic fortitude she suppressed her violent grief and, wholly conformed to the Divine Will, generously offered the sacrifice of her Son for the sins of the world.”
― Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother

“But although her whole life was, like that of her Divine Son, a continuous series of sufferings and tribulations, the greatest woes and trials came to her during the week of the bitter Passion and Death of Jesus, when the storm of hatred and fury burst forth with all violence against Him.”
― Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother

“Because of these Seven Sorrows which pierced her maternal heart, the Mother of God is often represented either as standing beneath the Cross, or as holding the lifeless body of Jesus on her lap, her heart transfixed by seven swords, as foretold in the prophecy of holy Simeon at the Presentation: “And thy own soul a sword shall pierce.”
― Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother

“In order to keep before our minds the inexpressible sufferings endured for us by the Mother of God while she lived here on earth with her Divine Son, the Church observes two feasts in honor of the Seven Dolors (Sorrows) of Mary: one on the Friday before Good Friday and the other on September 15.”
― Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother