One Crow Sorrow

The traditional rhyme "one crow sorrow" is a way to acknowledge how the sorrow impacts our life. The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today are chosen to observe "Our Lady of Sorrows". The Letter to the Hebrews refers to the prayer dialogue between Father and Son concerning Jesus suffering. The perfect obedience of Jesus, fully human, to the will of the Father to be love and reconciliation to the world brought suffering. The suffering of His mother Mary is recalled as model to people who share with her the role of standing by loved ones who suffer. The psalmist commits his spirit to the hands of God. This is a reminder of Jesus action on the cross and is also the movement of those who, like Mary, are participating in suffering through compassion and empathy for loved ones. The Gospel of John is set at the foot of the cross of Calvary, where Jesus, at one level, as human son is seeing to the care of his mother at the hands of his beloved disciple. At another level, Jesus is entrusting Mary His Mother of Incarnation to the Church as an intimate Mother and Child relationship within the Living Body of Christ. The "Lady of Sorrows" brings the faith, trust, compassion, mercy and love to those in communion with the Spirit of Christ through His Body, the Church.