OUR LADY OF SORROWS

Quote for the Day - Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows - Sept. 15, 2010


"O Mother of God,
you are the mystical paradise,
which, untilled,
produced Christ,
through Whom
that life-bearing tree,
the Cross,
is planted on earth.
Wherefore
we now adore its exaltation,
and magnify you."


Byzantine Menaea,
Exaltation of the Cross (September 14),
Ninth Ode at Matins.
8th Century


Picture on top: Our Lady of Sorrows by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682)