7. The Burial of Our Lord.
Venerable Fulton Sheen explains in The World’s First Love that Mary will bear the scars of Christ’s Passion in her own soul. “No one can tell the griefs that either bore, and no one can tell the holiness that she achieved through sharing, as much as she could as a creature, in His act of redemption… All the fatherless, motherless, sonless, husbandless, and wifeless griefs that ever tore at the hearts of human beings were now bearing down on the soul of Mary. It is hard to lose a son or a daughter, but it is harder to bury Christ. To be motherless is a tragedy but to be Christless is hell.”
