Sword

 A sword will pierce your own soul..

Luke 2:35

One of my favourite titles that the Blessed Virgin Mary has is Our Lady of Sorrows, which is celebrated today in the Catholic liturgy. My local RC parish church in Bognor Regis, West Sussex was Our Lady of Sorrows. Beautiful church, and probably the best Catholic parish I was ever honored to be involved with.

Mary has suffered. The traditional Catholic iconography of the Virgin's heart pierced by many swords comes from this verse. Extreme, but every mother who has lost a son, like my own grandmother, knows more about it than those who are quick to mock anything they don't understand as sentimental or worse.  


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