‘Lies! I was deceived!’
Would the Blessed Virgin, seeing her Son Jesus on the Cross, ever have even the slightest desire to say to God: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’ because He apparently was not given the throne of David to reign forever?
You decide.
Pope Francis, on the silence of Mary at the foot of the Cross:
"She was silent, but in her heart, how many things [she] told the Lord! ‘You, that day . . . had told me that he would be great, you had told me that you would have given him the throne of David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and now I see him there!’ Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’ John Paul II would say this, speaking about Our Lady in that moment. But she, with her silence, hid the mystery that she did not understand and with this silence allowed for this mystery to grow and blossom in hope.”
Vatican Radio, Dec. 20, 2013. From his homily at Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.
http://en.radiovaticana.va/m_articolo.asp?c=757349
On the contrary, she fully understood the mystery. The Blessed Virgin Mary to the mystic Luisa Piccarreta:
"So, the life of my Son is about to end, and He is about to take flight to His Celestial Fatherland. Ah! dear child, the Divine Fiat gave Him to Me, and in the Divine Fiat I received Him; and now, in the same Fiat, I give Him back. My Heart is torn; immense seas of sorrows inundate Me; I feel life leaving Me because of the atrocious spasm. But nothing could I deny to the Divine Fiat; on the contrary, I felt disposed to sacrifice Him with my own hands, had It wanted it so. The strength of the Divine Will is omnipotent, and I felt such strength by virtue of It, that I would have contented Myself with dying rather than deny anything to the Divine Will.
Now, my
child, listen to Me: my maternal Heart is drowned with pains; just thinking that
my Son, my God, my Life, must die, is more than death for your Mama. Yet, I know
I must live. What torment, what deep gashes form in my Heart, piercing It all
the way through with sharp swords. Yet, dear child, I grieve in saying this, but
I must say this to you: in these pains and deep gashes, and in the pains of my
beloved Son, there was your soul - your human will. Since it would not let
itself be dominated by the Will of God, We covered it with pains, We embalmed
it, We fortified it with our pains, so that it would dispose itself to receive
the life of the Divine Will.
Ah! if the
Divine Fiat had not sustained Me and continued Its course with infinite seas of
light, of joy, of happiness, along side the seas of my bitter sorrows, I would
have died as many times for as many pains as my dear Son suffered. Oh! how
tortured I felt, when He made Himself seen for the last time - pale, with a
sadness of death on His face, and with trembling voice, as though wanting to
burst into sobs, He told me: “Good-bye Mama. Bless your Son, and give Me the
obedience to die. My Divine Fiat and Yours made Me be conceived, and my Divine
Fiat and Yours must make Me die. Hurry, Oh dear Mama, pronounce your Fiat, and
tell Me: ‘I bless You and I give You the obedience to die crucified. So does the
Eternal Will want, and so I too want’.”
My child,
what a blow to my pierced Heart. Yet, I had to say it, because there were no
forced pains in Us, but all voluntary. So We blessed each other, and exchanging
that gaze which is not able to detach any more from the beloved, my dear Son, my
sweet Life, departed; and I, your sorrowful Mama, stayed. But the eye of my soul
never lost sight of Him. I followed Him into the Garden, in His terrible agony,
and – oh! how my Heart bled in seeing Him abandoned by all, even by His most
faithful and dear Apostles.
The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will , Day 27.
Thanks to the Christ or Chaos website for calling this to my attention. The article on that site quotes from the revelations to Ven. Mary of Agreda, in her opus The City of God, which further describe Mary's true thoughts and feelings at the Crucifixion of her Son.
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