Children of The Church: Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

On September 15th,we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, which is a feast day when we learn about the great suffering that Mary experienced as the Mother of God. The Seven Sorrows are the following:

The Prophecy of Simeon: Luke 2:33-35
The Flight into Egypt: Matthew 2:13-15
The Loss of the Child Jesus in Jerusalem: Luke 2:41-52
The Meeting of Our Lord in the way to Calvary: Luke 23:27
The Standing at the Foot of the Cross: John 19:25
The Taking Down of Our Lord from the Cross: Matthew 27:57-59
The Burial of Our Lord: John 19:40-42

Today we read each of these Bible stories and talked about how Mary must have felt during each moment. As we were reading the stories we made a Ribbon of Sorrows from the Seton 1 Art book, which display these stories with a picture of Mary crying. We have always talked a lot about the story of Jesus's crucifixion and how Mary must have felt, but it was good to talk about other stories as well like the story of the Flight into Egypt and also Jesus being lost in Jerusalem.

Talking about Jesus being lost in Jerusalem was a great opportunity for us to also talk about what to do if one of our children get lost. Where they should go and what information they need to know like their full name, their parents name, phone number and address. We also talked about listening to parents to try to not make them sad and also praying to Mary.