Let us see the Immaculate Mother her eyes fixed on Jesus. The soldiers were busy in dragging the dead bodies of the two robbers who were crucified with Jesus down the hill to the common burial-place. It is evening and it is quiet around the Cross of Jesus.
Jesus is dead and his side is pierced by the soldier. Along with Mary let us look at the cross. Let us move to Golgotha and stay with Mary, the Mother of Sorrows. Let us contemplate the heart-breaking pain of the Mother of Jesus. And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.” (John 19, 38 – 42) Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden, there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, now came with a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. Pilate gave him permission so he came and removed his body.
“After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. On this day the Church does not celebrate Holy Eucharist as it is a day of repose with the body of Jesus laid in the tomb, we shall bring you a meditation with Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of Sorrows.
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