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The
tears of Mary are the sign of the maternal love and
of the participation of a Mother in the life of her
children. Someone who loves, shares.
The tears are an expression of the sentiment of God
towards us: A message of God to humanity.
It is a strong invitation to conversion of heart and
to prayer, addressed to us
by Mary in her apparitions and repeated again
through the silent, but eloquent, language of her
tears.
Mary wept from a humble plaster plaque, in the heart
of the city of Syracuse, in a home next door to an
Evangelical Church; in a very modest home of a young
family; over a mother awaiting her first child, sick
with gestational toxicosis ... all of this cannot be
without significance.
The tender message of help and encouragement of our
heavenly Mother is evident. She suffers with those
who suffer to defend the values of the family, the
inviolability of life, the sense of the Transcendent
before the prevailing materialism, the value of
unity. Mary, with her tears, admonishes guides,
encourages and consoles us. |
