Feast of St. Joseph

Consoling Mary at the Cross

An amazing thing to consider, during Lent and throughout the year. This is from an amazing article on the knowledge of Mary and the Sacrifice of Jesus by Fr. Bertrand de Margerie:

"Mary also knew, through her infused knowledge, our effective reparations toward her and was consoled by them."

Yes, you read that right--Mary at the Cross saw the reparations, prayers and penances that we offer her now and she is not only consoled now by these, she was consoled at the foot of the Cross by them! You are consoling Mary at the foot of the Cross when you console her now. Ponder that for a while...you console her at the Cross.

And the author goes on to write this:

"These spiritual consequences encourage us to become ever more the consolers of Mary Coredemptrix, that is, to let Christ crucified console her through us."

That brings us to another point:

It's really a false notion, the way it's phrased, to say when we go to Mary she betrays us to Christ--that would mean her charming us to her is a lie, a deceit--rather, she charms us to her in all truth--when we come to her she transforms us into Christ, but then transformed into Christ who do we love more than anyone after God? Mary. In whose arms do we find ourselves, more and more the more we are transformed into Christ? Mary's. So by transforming us into Christ, not only do we become More Christ's and more Christ, we become more and more Mary's at the same time. She wants us to be one with Christ and to be be one with her. Kolbe said this too--we don't go from one to the other (Mary to Jesus or Jesus to Mary), we go "with one to the other."

The more you are one with Jesus, the more you love and are in union with Mary, and when you console her now (a desire and ability Jesus gives to a person through the Holy Spirit), you console her at the Cross--not in imagination, in actual fact.

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