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By Stephen Beale, Catholic Exchange - September is the month traditionally dedicated to the Sorrows of Mary. But the life and ministry of Jesus is also punctuated with sorrows, including His final agony on the cross. So let us take the sorrows of Mary as an opportunity to also consider those of Jesus.

Fr. Mark Goring, Companions of the Cross, Catholic Charismatic Center, Director

By Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, Aleteia - As I thought about this, I imagined one of the first scenes in which we encounter Mary, as portrayed in the First Joyful Mystery, when the Angel Gabriel appears and greets Mary saying, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” (Luke 1:28).. Mary’s response, ultimately, is “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word.”

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In our culture, many battles are fought on the question of nature. The word “nature” comes from the Latin natus, which means “birth.” Thus, nature is what we are intrinsically born with, what we are born to be. Church teaching and traditional philosophy insist that things have a nature. That is, they are endowed with certain fundamental traits that make them what they are.