We are all uniquely chosen to be Christ’s light in the world. All of us have been endowed with different gifts to build His kingdom here on Earth.
We have been given Christ’s Holy Mother, Mary, to be our mother, and she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, we turn to her for guidance and for her intercession so that we may be powerful witnesses of Christ Jesus, our Lord, her son, to bring healing, peace, mercy, love, and joy. Amen.
Our Lady of Sorrows pray for us…
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First reading
1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31
You together are Christ’s body: each of you a different part
Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink.
Nor is the body to be identified with any one of its many parts. Now you together are Christ’s body; but each of you is a different part of it. In the Church, God has given the first place to apostles, the second to prophets, the third to teachers; after them, miracles, and after them the gift of healing; helpers, good leaders, those with many languages. Are all of them apostles, or all of them prophets, or all of them teachers? Do they all have the gift of miracles, or all have the gift of healing? Do all speak strange languages, and all interpret them? Be ambitious for the higher gifts.
Gospel
John 19:25-27
‘Woman, this is your son’
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.
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