Passion Friday: Our Lady of Compassion
by VP
Posted on Friday April 11, 2025 at 12:00AM in Tradition
Our Lady of Sorrow, Sacred Heart Dunn, NC ©CAPG
Our Lady’s Compassion in Passiontide (National Catholic Register)
Prayer: Our Lady, Mother of Sorrows pray for Priests, your special sons. Strengthen their faith and love of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, so that they may turn to Him for the grace they need to live a life faithful to their calling. Bring comfort, consolation and courage to those who are suffering under the weight of the Cross. Give them the love of your Son and zeal for the honor and glory of God, and the salvation of souls. Amen
Compassion of Our Lady (The Month, 1915)
Water and blood-in clear and crimson tideDrawn by a soldier from His open side
When on the Calvary the Saviour died,
Upon the Rood:
Now in one Cup the water and the wine
Mingle together as a mystic sign,
Union of natures human and divine-
Water and Blood.
Water and Blood-the sorrows that transfix
Her heart with His, well from her soul's pure pyx
In anguish lachrymal and whitely mix
With that red flood:
Now wheresoe'er the Holy Mass is said,
Within one Chalice evermore is wed
Her passion white unto His Passion red-
Water and Blood.
M. S. J.
