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The Meeting of Mary with Jesus, on the way to Calvary

The Fourth Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin was when she met her dear Son as He made His way to Cavalry.

Prayer

My sorrowful Mother, by the merit of that grief which you did feel in seeing your beloved Jesus led to death, obtain me the grace, that I also may bear with patience the crosses which God sends me. Happy indeed shall I be, if I only know how to accompany you with my cross until death. You with your Jesus—and you were both innocent—have carried a heavier cross; and shall I, a sinner, who have deserved hell, refuse to carry mine? Ah, immaculate Virgin, from you do I hope for help to bear all crosses with patience. Amen.