Our Lady of Sorrows

Michelangelo's Pieta, the Sorrowful Mother with the dead Jesus

O most holy and afflicted Virgin! Queen of Martyrs! you who did stand motionless beneath the Cross, witnessing the agony of Your dying Son - through the unceasing sufferings of your life of sorrow, and the bliss which now more than repays you for your past trials, look down with a mother's tenderness and pity on us, who kneel before you to venerate your sorrows, and place our requests, with filial confidence, in the sanctuary of your wounded heart. Present them, I beg you, on our behalf, to Jesus Christ, through the merits of His own most sacred death and passion, together with your sufferings at the foot of the cross, and obtain our present petition. To whom shall we resort in our wants and miseries if not to you, O Mother of Mercy, who, having so deeply drunk of the chalice of your Son? Offer for us to our Savior one drop of the Blood which flowed from His sacred veins, one of the tears which trickled from His divine eyes, one of the sighs which rent His adorable Heart. O refuge of the universe and hope of the whole world, do not reject our humble prayer, but graciously obtain our petition.
The celebration of Our Lady of Sorrows is being celebrated in private today as no processions or extra Masses in factories and offices will be held. However, most of the population will follow Masses on TV and social media and implore the Sorrowful Mother to intercede for us at the present moment of incredible suffering and anxiety so many people are experiencing. May Mary protect all doctors, nurses and hospital workers, as they help the thousands of patients, and may we soon see an end to this life-threatening virus.