Fr. Bryce Lungren: Woman, Behold Your Son

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[Image: The Crucifixion with the Virgin, St. Mary Magdalene, St. John the Evangelist and St. Vitus by Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)]

By Fr. Bryce Lungren, Crisis Magazine, July 10, 2023

Fr. Bryce Lungren was blessed to grow up in a family with deep Wyoming roots. After graduating high school in Worland, WY in 1998, he moved to Montana where he worked in the world and grew in his Catholic faith. …

Faithful Catholics are familiar with the command to behold your Mother. But I’d say fewer of us have really pondered our Lord’s command to Mary: Woman, behold, your son!

Fr. Bryce LungrenOn the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, several of us at the parish renewed, or made for the first time, our total consecration to Mary. This is not something new in my life. I made my first entrustment to Mary before going to seminary in 2008 and have renewed it several times since.

The usual go-to Scripture verse regarding total consecration to Mary is John 19:27, when Jesus said to His beloved disciple, “Behold, your mother!” But this year, as I renewed my consecration, a different verse came to mind—not 19:27 but John 19:26: “Woman, behold, your son!” …

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