For this feast, the Church invites us to receive divine wisdom: the suffering of the world, madness and scandal, all become, in the Blood of Christ, a cry of love and the seed of glory for all of us.
The prayer of the day:
“You wanted, Lord, that all men may be saved by the Cross of your Son; having known from of this mystery here on earth may we taste the benefits of redemption in heaven.”
Readings:
Nm 21:4b-9 or Ph 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17.
The Gospel announces the Cross as an elevation − an elevation of love and the glory of love:
“No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man; as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life. For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved”
(Jn 3:13-17).
The Virgin Mary understood the wisdom of God. This is why the liturgy associates the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrow to that of the Triumph of the Cross.
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