The Blessed Virgin Mary ~ Our Lady of Solitude

+ On Holy Saturday, a day when the world is silent with expectation, the Church remembers the sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary as she mourned the death of her Son.

+ In honoring Mary as “Our Lady of Solitude,” we recall the overwhelming sorrow of Mary and her own sense of hope and expectation as she awaited the fullness of the promises God had made to the world in life and mission and of Jesus.

For prayer and reflection:

For our sake Christ was obedient, accepting even death, death on a cross. Therefore God raised him on high and gave him the name above all other names.

—Responsory for Morning Prayer for Holy Saturday

Prayer

All-powerful and ever-living God,
your only Son went down among the dead
and rose again in glory.
In your goodness
raise up your faithful people,
buried with him in baptism,
to be one with him
in the eternal life of heaven,
where he lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. Amen.

(from The Liturgy of the Hours)

Saint profiles prepared by Father Silas Henderson, S.D.S.