Mother Angelica Live Classics - 2014-07-08 - The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady - Mother Angelica

like a live brought to you from the Eternal Word television studios in Birmingham see in you the love the compassion of Jesus warriors work of all to praise God in his kingdom ruled by the spirit when lives in love lives in God and God lives what a wonderful thing is our church this whole network is built on the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody jesus loves you we're all called to be great Saints don't miss the opportunity well we got one great crowd of family here this evening and I'm real happy over that I'm happy to see him I can't always shake hands with him because it's in the back but I send my heart over there okay all over here I have a little something for you that people been asking for and they say isn't there a simple little catechin yeah we got it right here and it's I don't know where is she I don't know how much is it now isn't that a funny thing huh well it looks like two dollars I could be deceiving though I tell you what we'll do just to settle the whole thing it doesn't even have a price in here anyway say what you want hmm that might be better with it huh okay but this is a very simple catechism and all it does is um ah says here a dollar fifty must be what we paid for it because I don't know I just want you to have it all joking aside it's question and answer remember the old Baltimore what it isn't the Baltimore Catechism but it's very similar I think it's one of those things you can keep in your pocket or your purse for the people who ask questions but you don't know the answer see and you could just zip through here and find any answer that you need all in this low book so what is it hmm it says the dollar and a half can be two dollars may make it why don't we settle for two and a half a little bit for me and a lot for you does it say something here no but that's okay it's worth it whatever you're saying you need this catechism in your hand in your pocket so when somebody says hey why do Catholics believe this wait a minute I got it right here so you remember that huh now today is the feast of Our Lady Sorrows and I would like very much to point out to you the Sorrows of early first of all I don't think we know them and secondly I think that's one of the reasons so many of you have problems with our lady you don't understand why you should love her why isn't enough I love Jesus of course but Mary brings you to Jesus and she increases the beauty of your soul so when you present yourself to Jesus you know she's like let's see it if you had a fiance okay and you didn't really have a nice dress to wear and what would happen how would you feel if the fiancees mother it just maybe not a fan just your boyfriend if his mother said hey look you come over and I'll give you a beautiful dress to wear well what would you think of her but would you think of somebody like that well you would love her because she got you ready she gave you a beautiful dress to wear well that's what I lady dad thing she helps to clothe your soul so it looks more beautiful when you present yourself to Jesus isn't that simple I would like to bring out one of the sisters typed it for me so I wouldn't have to roam through the Bible to find all these things but the Seven Sorrows the first is from Saint Luke if you want to write it down the second chapter xxxiv verse and it says and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary the child mother behold I would like you women to put yourself in this position at your son's baptism you got that huh your son is being baptized and the priest looks at you and says this behold this child is set for the fall and the rising of many in Israel and for a sign that is spoken against a sign of contradiction and a sword will pierce through your own soul that the thoughts of many may be see how would you feel as a mother if the priest that you baptizing your baby said something like this to you huh how would you feel like that this child is for said for the fall and rise of many what does that mean it means that you're either going to believe in Jesus or you're not and you look in the life of Jesus the Pharisees never believed in him did all they could to kill him and they finally dead but a lady had to hear that this sha would be a sign of contradiction and a sword would pierce her own soul well let's see if that's what happened huh and Saint Matthew the second chapter 13th verse it says now when they had departed an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said rise and take the child and his mother and flee into Egypt and remained there till I tell you for Herod is in search of the child to destroy him how would you feel how could you hate a woman called the mother of God because she is when she's gone through all of this oh we're not through our lady suffered for you and for me how would you think if you were born say and in New York okay and and suddenly an angel appeared to your husband and said take this child and go to Chile South America what would you say stay hey wait a minute when you're talking about I'm going to follow a dream are you nuts I don't know many women will just take it up and gone just left with what not say in a country they didn't know if we're not popular and where would he go how would he make a living and what language would he speak I'm sure the Israelites were not popular in Egypt's for whatever reason not to put yourself in the scriptures before you criticize our sweet mother put yourself there why would you have done for you our lady was the perfect disciple of Jesus first she's told that decide this child is a sign of contradiction and would be responsible for people being separated and now she has to run into Egypt I do not love such a woman well then the third sire was Luke 243 49 and it says here when the feast ended isn't they were returning and the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem how many of you have lost your children I just didn't know where they were little children 10 maybe 10 years old 11 12 well here's what happened to our lady and his parents supposing him to be in the company of the other sought him among their kinsfolk and couldn't find him can you imagine as a woman and a man a father that you're responsible before the Eternal Word before the father himself for protecting his son and all of a sudden you you going for a stopping and he's nowhere around they look everywhere and Joseph would say I thought he was with you and Mary said I thought I I saw him with you now they got to go back and for three days they looked and looked and can you imagine the agony you know every so often we get these little notices with pictures of the most beautiful children beautiful sure and they're gone and the parents have the slightest idea where they are not the slightest now if you're one of those parents you know what our lady went through do they keep looking they don't sleep they don't eat ever one thing in mind where is Jesus and haven't you and I felt that way sometime huh when we pray and and we don't feel the Lord's presence we we think maybe he's angry with us and he went on a vacation somewhere no now you can put yourself in our lady's shoes mm well they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers listening to them and asking them questions they were made and his answers and when they saw him they were astonished and his mother said son why have you treated us so why would you say that huh to our Lord haven't you said I've heard people say this a hundred times I go to church every Sunday I tied on the first one to put some in that basket and all this happens to me Lord why don't you love me anymore why'd you do this to me well she said behold your father and I have been looking for you anxiously you know I can see where you'd lose a son or daughter but what would happen if you were signed by the eternal father to bear his son and then to keep him safe you you can't imagine the agony you can and she said to her how is that you sought me did you not know I must be about my father's business you say well that doesn't relate to me Oh does it how many of you have sons and daughters that want to be religious they really feel called by God and what do you say to that why do you want to waste your life oh you're kidding ha ha ha you've got to be kidding you can waste your life serving God oh come on and our Lord said you why'd you ask it might not God a king of all am I not the right to ask your daughter or your son to be a priest or religious and you say all those priests and religious are all nuts look at them today it doesn't matter what they do today there are thousands of good priests and religious the hundreds of not for you to judge what your son or daughter will be and not Church your your duty to do that how many lost vocations you know had a woman come to me she was in tears and she said and I hope I never hear it again she said I could handle my son when he's on drugs I could handle him when he was running around with every woman in this village but now he's going to be a priest as well aren't you happy I can't handle a priest in my family so waste of mind and soul when time I saw you would rather him be a drug addict she said yes how do you talk to somebody like that you'd rather your son be a drug addict then give his life to God I had every opportunity become a saint we're not thinking right hmm well the fourth sorrow of Our Lady butts and there followed him a great multitude of people and the women be wailed him you know you cannot imagine if you're a mother you can your son is being dragged he's been wounded he's been horribly beaten and as you can't help him you don't have the strength to carry his cross you you don't have any water to give it he falls through three dives the one of the worst pains is is not being able to help someone that's suffering especially someone your love has to be the most frustrating thing this was his father's business you see and our Lord was reminding our sweet mother that he has to be about his father's business even when it hurt her and Joseph and Howard she was here oh you don't know the fifth sorrow of our sweet mother is standing by the cross and you know what's the last thing about this she stood there she stood gin faint she didn't run away she stood only a strong woman kind of stand under that kind of torment she didn't want to miss one paint one sorrow of her son she was going to stay there that was his father's business and she was going to stay with him she was not going to move every blow every ache every pain every terrible terrible terrible terrible thirst she felt it off and no loving mother would not feel it up did that she didn't say to anybody tell me when it's over she didn't want to put him out of his agony she didn't want to pull the plug today we have false compassion but I read he didn't have false compassion she had real compassion for Jesus she knew every pain every Milly a ssin every insult and who did he save on the cross a thief beneath the cross for thirty-three years of being on this earth he had one friend John he had his mother he had an ex-prostitute and a thief batting average not too good but his humiliation and her humiliation was to the very end according to the world that's why I don't believe the world the world lies the world lies to you to the very end she stayed with her son she knew the Father's will and she was going to suffer with her son they would both both of them offer their sufferings to the Father for your sins and my sins I don't know about you I'm grateful I'm grateful I was 18 before I knew Jesus what a waste of life but maybe it wasn't maybe wasn't I dear Lord permitted it I'm sure so that I would know pain suffering humiliation and all the rest it comes with the poor the hungry the destitute those in despair our lady and our Lord didn't have to do that they have to but they did for you for me and that's why we must love them in return they we don't do much for them it's a sorrow v oh ho Jesus saw his mother you know there's nothing more heart-rending oh then someone your love is dying and you suddenly see them face-to-face eye-to-eye you know they're dying you want to hear that last word you want to tell them all the things you thought of but couldn't you want to say so much but you're like tongue-tie but he looks at his mother and and what's he say he saw his disciple that he loved but he says speaks first to his mother and he says woman behold your son I want to explain that a little bit do you remember what the father said to Adam and Eve in the book Genesis he told of the serpent I will put enmity between thee and the woman our Lord always called Mary the woman he's trying to tell us something this is the woman that he promised would crush the head of Satan there was no reason for him to say woman behold your son to the very last he's teaching us something woman oh I gave me a book years ago you can have it if you want call the promis'd woman and this woman was given a new son now all of you that think Mary had other children come on it would be a first-class insult that if Jesus had brothers that he she would say this this man here that you love is your son hey come on you don't know Jewish history how could you say that with the Son of God the Holy One commits that insult you're not thinking straight there was only one son of Mary that was the Son of God and so he had no one to give her - he said boomin behold your son and then he looked at John and he said behold your mother oh now you see we have we have to acknowledge whether you like it or not Mary is your mother all of you that are such fundamentalists when it comes to the scriptures try this one and don't talk yourself out of it she is your mother given to you by Jesus on the cross but that had to be a heartache you know there's no substitute for Jesus and John was called son of thunder always like John because that maybe was a little bit Italian you know he's he he had a temper hot temper or do we call down fire from heaven and swallow up this down what did he think he had the power to do that you know not let that way you don't know what you're talking about I would have said a few more words but this is what mary has left I'm sure John was holy I'm sure John was a loving young man I'm sure he was a loving Sunter but he was not Jesus so married he had to give up everything for you why don't you love her huh why I do hate her so much huh why some of you fallen away Cathy sir follow a religious huh you speak so terribly about your mother why you do that Jesus gave her to you it wasn't something she made up and believe me were no substitutes but she loves us because she was you and I are given to her by her son the sixth hour was again from Saint John the 19th chapter since it was the day of preparation in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross Pilate asked that their legs be broken you know why they did that huh well on the cross they used to suffocate those of you who have asthma understand what I'm saying because you can only breathe in you can't breathe out and I dear Lord is where the others they had to to press on that wood and lift themselves up but they can't stand the pain you see and then they just to get a breath just a tiny breath and then they'd fall back down again well when they broke their legs they couldn't come up so then they'd suffocate men are so cool I thought cool but you see our Lord had been crowned with thorns and scourge so badly that there's no way no way he could have lived and no way he could have spoken on the cross because here's what happened the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and the other who had been crucified with him when they came to Jesus he was already dead they were surprised so they didn't break his legs but what do you think I leave them alone wouldn't you think they'd leave him alone no no one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear can you imagine how Mary felt you got a pretty hard heart if you don't know how how could she you know what's happened it said at once there came out a little blood and water I just think our dear Lord lost every ounce of blood and water now when he died and he commended himself further to the father and the loud voice that it is finished he had a loud voice now how can you have a loud voice when there's only a tiny few drops of water few drops of blood left you can't you can't joy dear Lord was upheld by the power of the Spirit by a special gift from God to speak in a loud voice Father forgive them don't know what they do to Diane Lord I commend my spirit miss finish all of that in a loud voice I will know my many nurses are here or doctors listening you tell me how you could speak with a few drops of water and blood left all of it in the heart you can see how our dear Lord used his power just to tell you how much he loves you give you his mother but she's the one that had to suffer the last pain the last bit she also had her heart Pierce nobody walked up to her with a the sword or length don't tell me though when she saw that soldier coming with a large large Lance's spear they were very long and very sharp can't you imagine her heart and her body shaky shuddering and he throws that month in her son's heart he's already dead what do you do that he had to go through this well you know we're very cold people we have some sympathy and compassion for adulterers for people are so lustful and boggle your mind we have compassion on them but none none for the Son of God and his mother aren't we strange people aren't we mixed up the seventh sorrow and this is this is awesome to me you know why I like at least I try to have trust in God in His Providence and but you realize that Mary was so dependent upon the Father she knew he was dying she knew his fate she was told by Simeon she was very versed in the scriptures and Jesus spent 30 years educating his mother she knew she never bought a tomb she never said Jesus you know you're going to die don't you think we need to buy a cave or a tomb no not her the Lord would provide there he was with a big spear in his chest nobody around all the apostles left and the soldiers were gone they did their dirty work and there was heard Mary Magdalene and one man John and maybe in the distance she saw one or two coming up she had them one to take him down in the worst way the worst well the scripture says that joseph of arimathea matter the council took courage he went to Pilate and asked for the body and Pilate wondered if he were already dead and some Neenah Centurion he asks whether he was already dead and they said yes he's dead so then the grant of the body to Joseph well he brought a linen shroud and taking him down wrapped him in the linen shroud Nazi army didn't even have the shroud you know before you criticize dilate criticize our lady ask yourself if you got the same trust she had you know our drinian friends that you shouldn't criticize anybody until you walk in his his moccasins they got some pretty good thing you know gotta listen to him and so he wrapped him in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb on a rock and then laid a big rock in front of it would you have wanted to go home then would you have not stayed nor the law said you had to be she was a disciple to the end that's why today we celebrate her sorrows and I love our lady that's where I got my vocation I was telling Alice the other day you know that's when I really found Jesus and I knew finally at about 1890 that Jesus loved me first of all there was a personal God they know that I know the Catechism believe me I can recite this something cover to cover in fact when sister would ask me a question I repeat the question and the answer and I'd stand there waiting for more but you know I still didn't know Jesus I knew a lot about it I didn't know he loved me I bet you don't know either I think you you know he loved everybody you're kind of a little grain of sand is he short no no I knew for the first time he loved me and so every every night when I come home from work instead of going straight home I would go to my parish church and I make tations of the cross and then I go before Lady of Sorrows statue an altar side altar and I do my Thanksgiving and my indulgences fairs probably five and one night I uh I looked up at Our Lady of sorrow I knew I had a vocation I knew it I knew it in here and I knew it here I walked all the way home three mile thinking about it I remember saying to her a sweet mother I I know how go I don't know how I get away but I'll go so please tonight I hope everybody listen here and everywhere else get a new love a new hope and new joy for your mother for my mother for God's mother and we have a call hello hello hey where you from hi mother I'm from Philadelphia my god I got people here from Philadelphia yay hey I just want to let you know that I pray this seven stars devotion every single day wonderful I make rosaries and I say the rosary every day thank you cheese and if it wasn't for the Blessed Virgin Mary I wouldn't be here I really wouldn't she has got me through a lot especially with my mother so I'm so happy that you're letting everyone know about her sorrows and the duration because I think it's great that everyone should know about it and pray to seven devotions there's our first there's a roadie for a sake of those listening there's our seven sorrow rosary that has all did you say prayers over all of these sorrows and I it be good even if you don't know them you could read them in the scriptures all these are in Scripture but I think you need to just say thank you sweet mother for all you suffered for me you cannot have a son that son of God and I have intense pain you can't we have a new call hello my mother hello well you'd run I'm calling from Maryland mm-hmm and I was watching last month some brothers and someone to take their vows of poverty chastity and obedience and I was wondering when you take a vow of poverty how could he help the poor if you make your own cells poor and not much is what it should explain the vows and how how taking your vows brings others to Jesus like what yeah well that the vow is not allowed to make yourself for the vow is to depend upon God's providence to be poor also in spirit to be poor in hearts to be poor in mine to to have first things first to know the one thing necessary in your life if I give up the whole if I had the whole world but I didn't have God what would it mean what would it matter you see if I I got all my half to the poor please and have no love no love no hope why would it matter it would matter nothing so we don't take a vowel we myself and my sisters take what's known as a solemn vow we we can never own anything just say well looks to me like you got quite a bit down there I know what you're thinking no it doesn't belong to us I work here but I don't even get a salary in fact I beg money for the network but working without a salary is my duty hey that's Simon not like God takes care of me people take care of is there inspired by God money-wise we live off this gift shop small little plate and it keeps the nuns go so we don't own this massive awesome wonderful Network I found the Lord allowed me to found it we try to keep it going the sisters open all your mail they listen to your problems every letter is opened by a nun and every letter is prayed over for you and we do that because I want consecrated hands handling the mail so they open it pray for you they don't get salary either see so poverty is that dependence we promised to depend upon the Lord when these genders were grateful and what is not we in do that's our life it's not a mad and when thy brother's took those vows they don't own anything now men to take of poverty or take a perpetual vows sisters who teach and nursed a perpetual life we take solemn vow what does that mean that means if I had a relative that died and left me some money I don't even see it going by you know the other day sister Fidelis took her first vowels you know and so she came up with an envelope and they had I think it was $25 in it see and I I took it out and I counted it and I gave her the envelope I said now you thank this wonderful woman they gave you $25 and she looked at me she looked at the money and went but see next time she won't take it as such a shock but she's generous she'll do it next time she'll give me the money and the envelope but she only gets back the envelope that is not true with a professor of all they may they may possess but they have to ask permission to get rid of it see our sisters don't even possess when we were young sister we would say our book this is our Bible it was really mine but we never said that we said our one time I went to the dentist and I said we have such a bad toothache right here I never forget its faith he looked at me and he said how many are there and and I looked at him I thought what are you talking about that's what you say said you said we have a dude thank you how many are here I said oh just me he said I don't understand I'm sorry but I should have said I II have a toothache it got us in trouble a lot so anyway but that was that was a constant reminder that I don't own anything say this is our Bible and if a sister would say to me can I have it then I would have to say yeah so that's not it always easy always eating you're my model thing for myself is I think if I don't know I have it then you can have it how many times do you i'd like go home when you come home you looking just pick out a drawer you're Chester drawers I make a bet you don't know what's in there and if somebody asked you for it you say although I need that I'll make a bet you have the slightest idea but you have until somebody wants it my theory is if you don't know you have it you don't eat it you don't know all this is nice a nice little meditation for you is think of yourself dying hmm now they're all crying and they're be sure they buy you a nice gasket and and they bury you then they start going through this chest of drawers what do you want I don't know don't look like it's worth much what do I do with it isn't that the truth huh and and now if you were there you'd be having a fit that's my favorite metal where is it going I can just imagine somebody halfway to purgatory stopping while you rummage through there's just a drawer and you imagine huh look they're giving away my favorite statue oh god they're going to find the money I hid them I need it's funny so why you why you hang on now huh why are we so possessed I think that they're going to go but I like that said what are you doing you you building big barns where they going to when you go seek first Birds the kingdom of heaven and all these other things will be added to you see death is a real meditation for those that are left then you read the will oh what a disappointment huh that old stitch pod didn't leave me a thing you were hugging her before she died giving her all these kisses wondering how much she left you we're not sin seriously we don't know what honesty is anymore and we're just funny we live in such corruption today such corruption we have misguided compassion oh the poor man oh you mean the poor man he offended God above either ends degree hey where are we misguided compassion stinks it does like the moment who call me I don't - forget it and I've told you about it she's boo-hooing around why I just what's the batter will you tell me oh she said my husband and Hermes mistress they live with me I said what I said repeat that which is my husband and his mistress they live with me how are you not well where they gotta go I can tell you where they're gonna go I can tell you real fast where they're going to go and you're gone with him she's crying oh they don't have a place to go I said why don't you throw them out but where will they go whoa I said I don't care and you shouldn't care I get rid of one of them or give it a both of them I get rid of them it's false compassion okay because their sin doesn't bother you he heads what so bad today we don't wait by abortion doesn't bother us anymore see even partial birth abortion doesn't bother us anymore a person steals a person commits adultery nobody care it's life all right hmm a lot of people down there thought the same way it's life it's not through life where it's so hot and everlasting fire I think we ought to pray for our nation it's so degraded and women have never been at this low ebb in their whole history of the world women today are considered tools of pleasure that's all and a nation that manifests through the entire world to heaven to God than to a angels into the earth that morality no longer exists it's a matter of pleasure well when you look at our lady in our sweet Jesus what they had to suffer to open the gates of heaven and give you divine indwelling in the sacraments the Eucharist and then you tell me this is normal no it's a pit of hell and you're seeing hell all over today everywhere pray pray for the salvation of this country and the salvation of the world and you can trust Jesus and Mary by now Oh Oh

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Published: Wed Jul 16 2014