Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Additional sermon within on why the Popes have not consecrated Russia...
As the octave of the Nativity of Our Lady ends, the consideration of her suffering would not normally come to the mind of the faithful. But if someone would ask about the future of this child, we would recall that before being proclaimed blessed by all nations, Mary would suffer with her Son for the salvation of the world.
The voice of the liturgy invites
us to consider her sorrow: “Ó all ye who pass by the way, attend, and
see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow.” This applies to her.
The sorrow of Our Lady is a work of God. He was the One who destined her
to be the Mother of His Son. Therefore, He indissolubly united her to
the Person, life, mysteries and sufferings of Jesus in order to make her
His faithful companion in the work of Redemption. Suffering has to be a
great gift, because God gave it to His Son and to the creature He loves
more than any other after Him, Our Lady. He gave it as a most precious
gift.
For Mary the suffering did not start at Calvary, but with Jesus, “that
incommodious child,” as Bossuet called Him, because wherever He went, He
entered with His Cross and with His thorns which He distributes to
those He loves.
The prophecy of the aged Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the
Divine Child in Jerusalem, to see her Son carrying the Cross, His
Crucifixion, the taking down from the Cross, and the burial of Jesus:
these are the seven mysteries into which are grouped the almost infinite
sufferings which made Our Lady the Queen of Martyrs, the first and
loveliest rose in the garden of the Spouse.
Above all, this solemn day shows us Mary on Calvary, and reminds us of
that supreme sorrow among all the sorrows that ran through the life of
Our Lady. The Church gave this feast the title of Seven Sorrows because
this number expresses the idea of totality and universality.
To understand the extent and intensity of the suffering of Our Lady, we
need to understand the extent and intensity of her love for Jesus,
because her love increased her suffering. Nature and grace concurred to
produce in Mary’s heart profound impressions. Nothing is stronger by
nature than the love a mother has for her son, and by grace the love one
has for God.
Comments of Prof. Plinio:
There are so many excellent thoughts in this selection by D. Guéranger
that I could be tempted to prolong these comments. I will not do so, but
will just select some ideas that he offers us.
The first is that since God loved His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, with
an infinite love and loved Our Lady with a lesser love, but still
greater than His love for any other creature, He reserved for them His
highest gifts. For this reason He gave them that vastness of crosses
represented by the number seven. Seven sorrows is understood as all
sorrows. Our Lady could be called the Lady of all sorrows because she
suffered everything.
All generations call her blessed, but all generations also could call her sorrowful.
If this is so, we should
understand better that when sorrow enters our lives it is a proof of the
love God has for us. We should also realize that if sorrow does not
enter our lives, we do not have this proof of His love for us.
Therefore, we should not complain when sufferings come to us – nervous
problems, difficulties in our apostolate, misunderstandings with our
friends, problems at home, poor health, business troubles. We should
accept these things as normal, as a proof of the love of Divine
Providence for us.
When I see a person without maturity, stability, rationality, elevation
of spirit, I think: He is lacking suffering. These qualities only come
with suffering - much suffering.
If we receive such trials, certainly we should pray for them to end. But
to the measure that they remain, we should thank God and Our Lady.
I would also like to stress those extraordinary words of Bossuet who
called Our Lord: “that incommodious child.” All those who follow Our
Lord are incommodious. When you give a good counsel, offer a good
example, ask for a sacrifice, the face of the person you are addressing
will let you know that he considers you bothersome. It would be easier
and more pleasant to tell a joke, to tease a bit, and close the matter
with a pat on the back, dispensing the person from his duties.
Sometimes we have to command. How easy it would be to command if we did
not have to ask a subordinate to take things seriously, to see reality
at its most profound depths and in its most elevated aspect. How simple
it would be if we did not have to ask him to face his own spiritual life
without cowardice and keep careful watch over his defects. All this
causes bother. The burden of being incommodious is one of the heaviest
weights we have to carry.
Maintaining joyful resignation in face of the annoyance we cause because
we represent Catholic duty, and having the courage to be incommodious
in every circumstance is the path we are called to take in order to
follow Our Lord.
These are the virtues that on the day of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady we should ask her to give us.
Sermon for the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sept. 2013)
by Monsignor Patrick Perez
I
just returned from speaking at Father Gruner’s conference. The first
thing I want to do is to thank those of you who prayed me there and back
safely. That was much appreciated.
Because
of being gone all week, I didn’t have time to prepare a proper sermon.
But I just want to say a few words to you. The conference was a good
one; I think one of the best ones they have had so far. I wanted to
apprise you of the fact that it doesn’t seem that my conference is to be
found on line. I only can speculate as to why, but I think that my
speculation is probably pretty good. I guess I kind of let the Novus
Ordo have it so much that Father Gruner was afraid if he posted it on
line he would lose his Novus Ordo support, which is fairly considerable.
So they haven’t posted it as yet. The other possibility is that maybe
they are editing it. In any case, I am considering giving the talk here
in the parish maybe in a few weeks when the dust settles.
I’ll
give you a little foretaste. Father wanted me to speak on theological
and philosophical reasons why the popes since Pius XII have not
consecrated Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. What I went on to
prove in the course of the talk is that first of all – remember, I told
you that the Church is firmly in the grip of modernism so I told them
what modernism was and what the chief teachings of modernism were and
what the previous popes, Pius IX, Pius X specifically, had condemned as
errors. So they knew what modernism was at this point. And then I showed
them that these errors appear in the Vatican II documents as positive
teachings of the Church all of a sudden. Pius IX and Pius X condemned
things that the bishops now wrote into the documents of the Church. Even
Cardinal Ratzinger (when he was Cardinal Ratzinger) said that the
Vatican II documents, particularly Gaudium et Spes, were a counter
syllabus, the Syllabus being the first really big condemnation of the
error of modernism. Even Ratzinger said, Yeah, now it is a document of
the Church. It was condemned in the Syllabus of Errors.
From
there I went on to show that the popes since Pius XII have been
modernists. As I was getting to this point, (there were a few Novus Ordo
bishops and Novus Ordo priests in attendance), and there started to be a
little rumble when they saw where I was going. By the time I got to the
point where I was just pointing out facts mostly (some of it my
opinion) of things they don’t want known – for example, John XXIII who
is up for canonization was removed from two teaching positions for being
a modernist. He was removed from his position as teacher of theology at
the Seminary of Bergamo, later he was removed from the Lateran
University, and then he became pope, and now up for canonization. That
was kind of interesting.
When
I got to the present pope – Well, picture, if you will, a one-quart
Mason jar filled with hornets. You screw on the top really tight and you
shake them up and then you put your hand right on the jar so that they
think they can get to you to sting you but they can’t. So they’re just
bashing themselves against each other in the glass and getting more and
more angry and frustrated. Well, that’s what these Novus Ordo types were
doing by this point.
And
I said, Well, let’s just look at what this pope has done so far and I
named a few of the things. I said specifically you can see on line at
the Mass he did in Brazil, the last Mass there. And I
said from this we can deduce that the current pope either doesn’t know
or doesn’t believe the teaching of the Church about the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass. I said he was a modernist, too, basically.
I
don’t want to give away any punch lines, but one of the other tenets of
modernism is that they don’t believe in objective truth. They don’t
believe, for example, that the Mother of God actually comes and appears
to people. This is one of the beliefs of modernism. What they believe is
that it’s all sentiment. And you see how sentimental the recent popes –
and even this pope is extremely sentimental – but what they believe is
that it is a kind of sentiment that comes from the inside of you, and
then you believe that you have seen the Mother of God and she told you
to do things like consecrate Russia. The conclusion was that the modern
popes, including the current one, haven’t consecrated Russia because
they don’t believe that the Mother of God said it, although that was the
mortal end of things. Not only did I tell them about modernism, but I
told them about the modernist Mass; they need to get out of there and
find the true Mass, the traditional Latin Mass.
Anyway,
I was the, as far as I know, the only speaker to get a standing ovation
— (Monsignor laughing) – which even made them more mad. I don’t know
what the level beyond hornets just bashing each other and trying to
sting somebody, but they were there in any case. One of the speakers who
speaks at every conference came up to me afterwards because they had a
series of compromised candidates, like Chris Ferrara that is mostly Novus
Ordo and part traditional. She was being very, very frustrated. She is a
very learned and good woman. She came up to me and said, “Monsignor,
you saved the conference”.
In
any case, even if they don’t ever put it on line, these bishops and
priests of the left persuasion have heard maybe for the first time ever –
and one of them is a really good friend of the current pope, as a
matter of fact, a bishop from Argentina. This may be the first time
they’ve ever head someone tell them that. So it would have been all
worth it for that. We were dangerously close to Niagara Falls so
wherever I went after that, I was holding on to something. (Monsignor
laughing)
I
should tell you; I know you’ve all heard the expression of being “to
the right of the John Birch Society”. Well after my lecture another of
the speakers approached me to shake my hand and to say just that. I
said, Well, thank you very much John.” It was John McManus, the head of
the John Birch Society. (Monsignor laughing)
I
do thank you. You know, you don’t really want to pat yourself on the
back but I felt that this talk really exceeded my self, meaning that –
You know, I have been praying constantly. I did a Novena to the Holy
Ghost before this and praying constantly that what He wanted said would
be said, and I really felt that it was. And I really had the idea that a
lot of it wasn’t coming from just me and my talk at the time. And I
have to attribute it – it’s the Holy Ghost but not to my own prayers,
but to yours for me.
At
the first opportunity – first opportunity means when it is cool enough
to stand in the hall over there and talk for an hour – but if they are
not going to post this, I would like you to have the same conference. So
we’ll be happy to do that. And thank you once again for all your
prayers.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen
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