Mother’s time, rylko: Mary is a model of faith and fixed hope

Isabella Peru – the Vatican city

The sacred Saturday is “a day of great silence, which is a day of great waiting”: Cardinal Stanislav Rilko, the bishop of Bazilica Pabali Santa Maria La, began his sermon in celebrating the time of the mother, who headed this morning, April 19, in the liberal church, as happened for more than 36 years. Special rituals aim to suggest and revive the pain of Marie’s supreme and faith, awaiting the resurrection of the Lord.

Mother’s time opens new horizons

“In the oldest Temple of Marianne in Rome and each of the West, the Cardinal said,” The Bridge between East and West “because” the first two -rituals of Byzantine rituals, headed by the Holy Kirlo and the doctor, in Rome, the mother’s time “is very wide and deep.”

Crying that purifies the look towards God and others

Rylko focused on two aspects in particular: The first is Mary’s cry that suffered from “indescribable pain” because of his son’s suffering in Golgotha. But that cry – that Cardinal remembers with a prayer unknown“He should not be afraid:” Pope Francis once encouraged us not to be afraid of crying, “explained. Tears sometimes do us well, and look at our view of God and others.

Mary, without the crucified Christ in the world

The second aspect is the gift aspect: Jesus crucifixion, in fact, Mary John trusts the words: “A woman, there is your son.” And the student of the Virgin, saying, “There is your mother!” (JN 19.26-27)-The “spiritual maternity of Mary of the entire church” extends. At that time, he repeated the Cardinal, “We all became her children while she was in our mother. This is the tremendous gift that Christ gave us in the last moments of his life on the cross! Hence, the Cardinal Corrector Arcipretste:

The handkerchief in the hand The safety of the Roman people

Then look at the icon The safety of the Roman peoplePreserved in Santa Maria La, especially by Pope Francis, who prayed before him on more than a hundred occasion since the beginning of Pontvie, Cardinal Releco explained the details that “not everyone notices”: in the painting, the Virgin represents with a “scene in the left hand”, to indicate that the mother. “

A safe guide to live Easter

Therefore, the head of the bishop of the Liberian temple called on the believers to ask Marie “to accompany us on the roads, and it is often contradictory, in our personal, family and social life.” The Cardinal, a model for “fixed hope”, concluded that “the scandal of the cross and the sealing piece containing the body of” the son, a model for “fixed hope”, whether it is “our safe guide to live in this Passover.”