They are models for each of us to emulate. Then there is Mary, Jesus’ mother. I didn’t begin with her example because she is so often lifted up as the supreme model of both motherhood and ...

This involves us. Into the Stations of the Cross: Jesus meets his mother, Mary. What thoughts might they have shared? Her heart had been pierced by a sword, as Simeon foretold. As only mothers ...

What one might not expect, however, is how these prayers affected Jesus’ mother. Mary is hardly passive in this Temple scene. Simeon has a prophetic message for her specifically. “Behold ...