GOSPEL READING: Jn 19:25-27
Standing by the cross of Jesus was his mother Mary. She never said a word at the foot of the cross. She never accused the Romans or those who persecuted her son or mocked him. She just stood by the cross. She never even pleaded the innocence of her son. She neither spoke for her son nor spoke against his son’s enemies. She stood there swallowing all the evil in the surroundings and probably transferred them into good reactions of love, concern, care and forgiveness.
Jesus saw his mother. She saw her standing alone. There was no one to care for her and no one to console her and no one to relate to her. She had lost everything. The only relation that she had (of her own family) was Jesus and he was dying in front of her with that everything was coming to an end so to say. Jesus even at that moment thought of what to do for her.
சிலுவையடியில் நின்றுகொண்டிருந்தால் மரியா. அங்கு நடந்து கொண்டீரந்த தீமையை எதிர்க்கவில்லை மரியா. மாறாக தீமையை உள்வாங்கி அதற்கு பதிலாக நன்மையை வெளிப்படுத்துகிறாள். அதுதான் சிலுவையடியில் நிற்தலின் பொருள்.
