Our Blessed Mother
at the Cross

Third Word of Jesus at the Cross:
"Jesus said to his mother: "Woman, this is your son". Then he said to the disciple: "this is your mother": Jn.19:26-27.

    At the foot of the Cross there were his mother and the disciple John. Jesus knew that Mary was not the mother of John. And Jesus was not telling a lie from the Cross when he proclaimed Mary the mother of the disciple, and the disciple the son of his mother… on the contrary, Jesus was talking about a glorious truth: From the Cross, Jesus was giving us his Mother, to be our Mother. We were all represented at Calvary in the "disciple".

    Jesus had given us up to the last drop of his blood, he had nothing else left, but his Mother, and he gave us the only he had lefton earth, his own Mother!, to be our spiritual Mother in his Church, in the Mystical Body of Christ: On it, Christ is the head, and the Christians the members of his Body. And, as in any other body, the Mother of the Head is also the Mother of the members of the Body, the Mother of each one of us (Col.1:18, Eph.4:5-6)… in that Mystical Body we have a Father, and we also have a Mother, praise the Lord. It will be monstrous a body with a father and no mother, and the Body of Christ is not monstrous but a most glorious one: The Father of Jesus is our Father, and the Mother of Jesus is our Mother, so we are brothers of Christ, of Father and of Mother, praise the Lord! (not just bastard brothers, only brothers of Father).

    And we have to do like the disciple: To take her into our home! (Jn.19:27)… and that's is easy: Just pray a Hail Mary, and that's it. Because the Hail Mary is the most intimate and poetic praise made to Jesus in the Bible: The most intimate, because what touches the most the heart of a man, is to tell him "blessed is your mother", and in the Hail Mary we say to Jesus, "your mother is the most blessed among women" as she is proclaimed in Lk.1:42. And the most poetic, because we add, "and blessed be Jesus, the fruit of your womb", and that's poetry! (Lk.1:42).

    And then, we add in the Hail Mary "pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death". Try Mother Mary!: If you have any problem at home or in your life, try Mother Mary!…you will see wonders in your life, I have seen them in mine…. if you are not a Christian, try Mother Mary!, you don't have to believe on any thing, and it costs you nothing, so try Mary! The first time I tried her, I did not believe, but I got the impossible in my life!… so if you have a serious problem in life, and you have already prayed, and nothing works, just try Mother Mary!… only a warning: The boat of Mary only leads to the shores of the Church of her Son Jesus!.

    Jesus did not have any more brothers, so, he was commending his mother to his disciple. And in fact, "from that moment the disciple took her to his own home" (Jn.19:27)… it would have been unheard for a Jewish family to commend the mother to a friend after his death, if the mother had another child.

    "Woman": That's how Jesus called her mother: Again, Jesus is not insulting his mother from the Cross. On the contrary, Jesus is calling his mother by the most glorious word at that moment, "woman", reminding us that his mother is the woman of Gen.3:15, the one who will crush the head of the serpent, Satan, with the Blood of Christ. She is the "great sign" of Rev.12… But just in case, the Gospel names Mary five times by the word "mother", and once by the word "woman" in only those three verses, Jn.19:25-27.

    We, the children of Mary, have to do like our Mother, because every child always looks like his mother: We have to crush the head of Satan with the Blood of Christ… it is a defeat for Satan, and a humiliating defeat, because when Jesus defeated Satan, it was God who defeated him; but now any Christian who is a nobody to Satan can defeat him just like our Mother, with the Blood of Christ, just as prophesied in Gen.3:15, and as proclaimed in Rev.12.

    To see that his mother was seeing him like that, it was the most painful psychological sorrow of Jesus, and the heart of Mary suffered one thousand times every nail and insult given to her Son: Jesus, our Redeemer. Mary, our Co-redeemer… we have to be also like our Mother, co-redeemers with Christ, evangelizers, help our friends to appropriate the merits of Calvary to go to Heaven… and our best weapon, is our cross, our sufferings (Col.1:24)

    Mary is the Mother of Sorrows, because at the foot of the Cross she gave us birth in Christ, she is indeed our Mother… blessed are you, Mary, among women, and blessed is Jesus, the fruit of your womb.

    Mary, the Mother of the King, is the Queen Mother, as in all kingdoms… our Mother is also the Queen of Heaven, the Queen of angels, the one in which the prophecy of the Bible as been fulfilled to the letter during the first two millenniums: "All generations hall call me blessed" , praise the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings (Lk.1:48, Ps.45:17, Rev.19:16).

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