<p class="title_brown">Jesus meets his mother</p>
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<p class="normal_text"><strong>V. </strong>We adore you, O Christ and we bless you.<br />
<strong>R. </strong>Because&nbsp;by&nbsp;your Holy Cross, you&nbsp;have redeemed&nbsp;the world.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>According to the Gospel of John (John 19, 26-27)</em></p>

<p class="quote">When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother,&nbsp;&ldquo;Woman, here is your son.&rdquo; Then He said to the disciple,&nbsp;&ldquo;Here is your mother.&rdquo;&nbsp;So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.</p>

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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Meditation</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Lord Jesus, the meeting with your mother, is a meeting of wounded hearts, squeezed by the unimaginable pain of separation and injustice, broken by the absurd of hate and disaffection that undermine and kill, clouded by the certainty of death that approaches. But it must also be, for sure, a place of comfort and encouragement: it is the meeting with the faithful women, in who you see all those who remain with you and unite to your offer, anticipating the gradual spreading another and definitive way of being: the loving gift one, which is fertile and gives fruits of a new life. With the gift of your life, you offered us also the gift of a women whose maternity will no more leave us orphans of tenderness and mercy, solitude and grace. The faithful women points us the path to that fidelity; trusting the God whose will she receives, she questions life as attentive listening and loving obedience.<br />
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<p class="subtitle_brown"><em>Prayer</em></p>

<p class="normal_text">Holy Father, United to the oblation of your Son Jesus, I pray for the strengthening in faith of who is willing to receive your word and put it in practice. I present you this prayer by the maternal hands of Mary, who in Fatima makes echo from your designs, which are always of mercy.<br />
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Our Father...</p>
