Please do not copy or publish these. They are for personal prayer and reflexion only. Thanks. And thanks to Teresa Tomeo for allowing me to share them on Ave Maria Radio and EWTN for the first time.
1. Annunciation where she accepts something that will cause scandal and misunderstanding
2. Slaughter of the Innocents, some of whom she may have known, when they died in the place of, and because of her son.
3. Death of Joseph her husband and protector
4. First sign (miracle) in Cana when Mary gave him away and said “Good-bye” when she said, “Do whatever he tells you.”
5. Betrayal of family and neighbors in close-knit Nazareth with attempted assassination of Jesus and Jesus moving away to Capernaum
6. Hearing Jesus had lost his mind (was demented) and arriving with inability to do anything to help him — (Mark 3:21).
8. Beheading of James in Acts 12 (lived with Mary together in John’s home; he was like a son to her)
9. Moving away from beloved Jerusalem to the pagan city of Ephesus when John became bishop there
10. Her own death or dormition though she was sinless
11. Her sorrow continues today with grief over all those who refuse to follow and love her son; the lost souls dying without hope of heaven
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Hi Steve! These are very interesting, but how can we reconcile the idea of Mary experiencing sorrow in heaven when we know that the saved in heaven experience nothing by bliss through the Beatific Vision?
STEVE RAY HERE: Thanks for joining the conversation. Filip, I don’t know how to answer that. I speculate that heaven does not mean we are oblivious to the world and it’s situation. Mary showed hell to the children of Fatima. She could not have been blissful doing so — and explaining the suffering of the souls who reject the mercy of her son. We are told every tear will be wiped away, but it seems that awaits the last day.
Hi Steve,
My wife and I live in Ave Maria and saw you at the Marian Conference where you discussed these unknown sorrows. Thanks for posting them as we will use them for our own personal prayer and meditation. I am also a former Protestant that was received into the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2000 – a Jubilee year.
I think that Filip’s question can also be addressed by noting that the Blessed Virgin may very well experience bliss while in heaven, but when she returns to earth to console, counsel and prepare us for the things to come, she then experiences sorrow. In this way, every Marian apparition is our Mother’s sacrifice to aid us, when she could stay in heavenly bliss.
Hi Steve,
My wife and I live in Ave Maria and saw you at the Marian Conference where you discussed these unknown sorrows. Thanks for posting them as we will use them for our own personal prayer and meditation. I am also a former Protestant that was received into the Church at the Easter Vigil in 2000 – a Jubilee year.
I think that Filip’s question can also be addressed by noting that the Blessed Virgin may very well experience bliss while in heaven, but when she returns to earth to console, counsel and prepare us for the things to come, she then experiences sorrow. In this way, every Marian apparition is our Mother’s sacrifice to aid us, when she could stay in heavenly bliss.
Maybe reference Jesus example in Philippians 2.
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