October 17, 1954 “It is not without lively commotion that we are aware of
the unanimous declaration of the Episcopate of Sicily upon the reality
of this event. Without a doubt Mary is in heaven eternally happy
and suffers neither pain or sorrow; but she cannot remain insensitive,
rather she always nourishes love and pity for the poor human race,
which was given to her as their Mother, when sorrowful and tearful
she remained at the foot of the Cross, where her Son was affixed.Will
humanity understand the mysterious language of those tears? Oh the
tears of Mary! Upon Golgotha they were tears of compassion for her
Jesus and of sadness for the sins of the world. Does she cry again
for the renewed wounds produced in the Mystical Body of Jesus? Or
does she cry for so many sons, in which error and sin have extinguished
the life of grace, and who gravely offend the Divine Majesty? Or
are they tears awaiting the belated return of her other sons, once
faithful, and now dragged down by the false mirage of the legions
of the enemies of God?” |