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After a fall
on the Via Dolorosa, Mary crawled next to her mutilated son and reassured
him: "I am here."
In that moment
of sorrow, where looks say more than words, Jesus and his mother were the
only ones who understood the depth and significance of this journey to
Calvary .
Mary was enveloped in
want to hold Him and love Him. Jesus took that love and kept on going .
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"I
am here"
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Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
Blessed are thou among
women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus carrying
His cross.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
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"There is a
powerful scene in “The Passion of the Christ”. In it,
Mary, the Mother of the Lord, runs to her wounded Son who has just
fallen for the third time, from the weight of the Cross. There is
a flash back to an earlier day when that same son, as a child, is
seen playing in the dusty streets of Nazareth and is about to
fall. With the tender love of a mother, Mary reaches out to her
Son.
Then the viewer sees her hand touch the wounded face of the Savior
who looks at her, and through words addressed to her speaks to
every human person, from the beginning of time until the end:
“Behold, I make all things new.”
Of all the scenes,
that encounter between mother and Son was the one that grabbed me,
at the core of my heart, and shook me to tears. They were tears of
sorrow and joy co-mingled. It was so human and yet so divine, so
full of promise and hope. The wounds on the Savior's sacred head,
that had in the earlier scenes seemed so brutal, painful and hard
to view, seemed to, almost in an instant, become beautiful. It all
became clear that they were wounds of love, freely and
redemptively embraced by the Savior, to “make all things new”
for the entire human race." ~Keith Fournier
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