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  Our Lady of Sorrows - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: mater dolorosa, the sorrowed mother) is a title given in the Roman Catholic Church to Mary, mother of Jesus.
The veneration of Our Lady of Sorrows on 15 September was initiated in 1239 by the Servite order in Florence, Italy.
In iconography, Our Lady of Sorrows is represented as the Virgin Mary wounded by seven swords in her heart.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Good Friday
Our present ceremony is an obvious development of this, the manner of worshipping the True Cross on Good Friday observed at Jerusalem.
The omission of the Mass proper marks in the mind of the Church the deep sorrow with which she keeps the anniversary of the Sacrifice of Calvary.
For example, the custom (where it exists) of carrying in procession a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows is expressly permitted by decrees of the S. Con.
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 MaryLinks, Mary Links, Virgin Mary
The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima.
The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Briefly stated, the Fifth Dogma is that Mary is our Advocate to God; that she is the Mediatrix of all graces; and that--especially at the foot of the cross--she voluntarily participated in the Calvary sacrifice and is therefore Co-Redemptrix.
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 Our Lady of Sorrows - Stabat Mater Dolorosa
The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order.
The feast originate by a provincial synod of Cologne (1413) to expiate the crimes of the iconoclast Hussites; it was to be kept on the Friday after the third Sunday after Easter under the title: "Commemoratio angustix et doloris B. Marix V".
Its object was exclusively the sorrow of Mary during the Crucifixion and Death of Christ.
www.wf-f.org /Sorrows.html   (603 words)

  
 LIGHT OF LIFE - Features
Joy Alappatt, Administrator of "Our Lady of Sorrows" church, Garfield and Fr.
Christianity in the Tamilnadu during this phase of early history was a very potential force and its ethics and other theological codes find powerful expression even in secular Tamil Classics like Tirukkural and Naladiyar.
The organizers are quite hopeful that the reconstruction of the early Christianity in India will shed new light on the history of Indian Philosophy and Indian Culture in general and this will give new orientation and new perspective to our understanding of the classical and medieval culture and civilization.
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Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Churches, Kansas City, Missouri
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
After a youth devoted to the world and society, attending the theatre, chasing women and the hunt, he was led to the Passionist Order by Our Lady.
His life was not marked by great events or controversy, but given to prayer, sacrifice, and a devotion to Our Lady and the contemplation of her sorrows over the suffering of Jesus.
She will even be at hand to accompany you on the trip to eternity.
www.catholicforum.com /saints/saintg01.htm   (293 words)

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