There are moments in history where
repeating to Mary “pray for us sinners” has a different weight.
After 3 pm, when Jesus dies, we might think that we enter in a
“waiting” state, and that Resurrection will happen anyway, so: no
worries. Or we might think that it is all finished, let us rest now
and wait for the early hours of Sunday.
While in fact events of apocalyptic
dimensions will occur during these hours, that go from 3pm on Friday - Good Friday, the only Friday - till the early hours of Sunday, the
Third Day, when God realises the last steps of Salvation, by making
his Son rise from the dead.
I admire the deep shrewdness of John
Paul II when he added a new set of mysteries to the Rosary (the Luminous ones). We
shouldn't hesitate to enter in the mystery of his choice, and develop
it more (without of course falling into extravagant things). I
wouldn't have the slightest hesitation to suggest a set of mysteries
just for these hours (from Friday 3pm to Sunday 4am). Mysteries that
will go around the New Eve and the work that the Holy Spirit is
realising in her and through her.
We need to be very united to her during
these hours because this is the only Tunnel that will lead to the
Light of the Resurrection. How many wise virgins are waiting with
their oil and lamps for the Groom when He will rise? Only one: Mary.
We can contemplate her when she
receives Jesus' body when they detach him from the Cross. Her Son is
dead, full of wounds, she can finally touch him, and see even from
closer what happened to his Holy Body.
We can feel her pain and contemplate
how she forgives to everybody, starting with the highest act of
forgiveness: the forgiveness to Judas. But as well to Peter. Not
forgetting all the Jews who were against Jesus and didn't believe in
him. Finally forgiving all of us who in a way or in another wounded
her Son and Saviour.
We can contemplate her embracing the
Lord's Body, covering His wounded Holy Body with kisses, love,
gratitude for the Salvation he brought her and us. She is the first
saved person and the mother of all the saved. We can, with her,
perform the same acts.
We can contemplate her suffering during
the burial, when they deposit the Lord's body in the coldness of the
stones and earth. The total frightening silence. Jesus can't speak
anymore. At this very moment when Jesus is deposited into the Earth, to
the Tomb, Mary's faith in the Resurrection, her Hope, her embracing-of-the-Fire-of-the-Promise-of-Jesus ("I will rise the third day") here
appear in all its power and nakedness.
We can contemplate her back home,
alone, fighting against the lack of faith of all the persons who
surround her, we can contemplate her fighting against Satan in person
who comes to tempt her into not believing and waiting for the Groom.
Wise Virgin she fights with all her being, moved by the Powerful
intercessory action of the Holy Spirit in her. The Holy Spirit makes
Her carry all of us in her womb. She is that big Sign in the book of
the Revelation, that huge Sign, that Woman who is carrying in her
whom all humanity, all Jesus' Body.
She believes for us, she hopes for us,
she holds tight (to love) the Fire of Jesus' Promise (I will rise
again).
"Through the intercessions of the Mother
of God, O Saviour Save us." (Three times)
The Holy Spirit doesn't find any
obstacle in Mary, because she is pure and is transformed in Him
(Dante calls her : “Crowned Fire”), therefore all the
Intercessorial power of the Holy Spirit is deployed in all its might.
Saint Paul says that in our weakness we don't know how to pray, that
the Holy Spirit in our spirit (or heart) prays and intercedes in us.
Isn't that happening in a mysterious fullness in the New Eve? Let us
join her, let us “enter in her womb/bosom”, like passing on an
amazing bridge over the abyss. Through her, in her, like the Amazing
Tunnel that leads to the Light of the Risen Groom.
The power of the Holy Spirit makes of
her the real mother that carries of the children of Jesus, and brings
them from the darkness to the Light.
So when we say: “Pray for us sinner,
now and in the hour of our death” we are saying: outside of your
womb we are in the darkness. We need to enter in you, so you can
carry us to the Light: the power of the Lever of your Intercession is
all based on the Action of the Holy Spirit in you, not finding any
obstacle in you. The fulcrum on whom the leaver leans is the Corner
Stone, the Saviour Himself, and the only Power of His Salvation.
Amen.
Note: These tragic hours could be lived each week of our life: from Friday 3pm to the dawn of Sunday. That same Mystery of the Holy Saturday continues till the end of times.
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