Many people like to think that Mary's life was Blessed and Full of Grace and so it was, but that does not mean she had no trials to face or suffering to endure.
As a young girl she was facing pregnancy out of wedlock, having conceived the Son of God before she was married to Joseph.
As a mother about to give birth she had no place to lay her newborn Son, except in a manger between the farm animals.
Simeon prophesied that her heart would be pierced by a sword and so it was;
As she fled to Egypt to save her Son.
As she lived as an immigrant in a foreign land.
As she watched her Son carry His cross to His death.
As she watched the Pharisees mock Him and His disciples desert Him.
As She stood at the foot of the cross as He died.
As she held Him in her arms when He came down from the cross.
As she laid Him in the tomb.
"Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow." Lamentations 1:12
And how did she respond to these trials and sufferings?
She contemplated them all in her heart. Lk. 2:19, 51.
Life and death, trials and sufferings do not always have answers.
Sometime they are mysteries that can only be contemplated in one's heart.
For in the depths of one's heart one finds the "the Father of mercies and the God of all consolations," "Who comforts us in all our afflictions." 2 Cor. 1:3-7. And
Who can only be contemplated not solved and figured out.
The trials and sufferings that Mary endured in her life are not too different from the ones we face.
Her Immaculate heart gives us courage and strength to contemplate them all in the depths of our own hearts as she did and to not lose hope and to have the Faith to face whatever cross may come.
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