Commemoration Of The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary - Friday In Passion Week - 8 April 2022

Quoted from Joy Filled Family [1]:

In Catholic Tradition, on the Friday after Passion Sunday, the Catholic Faithful are encouraged to meditate upon the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady. Let us thank our Blessed Mother for all the pain and suffering she willingly accepted for our salvation.

The Sequence (see below) for the Mass in the Roman Catholic Daily Missal 1962 (Angelus Press) on page 1164 refers to the Stabat Mater on pages 427-29.  

Quoted from Our Catholic Prayers [2]:

At the cross her station keeping, 

Stood the mournful Mother weeping,

Close to Jesus to the last. 

Through her heart, His sorrow sharing, 

All His bitter anguish bearing, 

Now at length the sword had passed. 

Oh, how sad and sore distressed 

Was that Mother highly blest, 

Of the sole begotten One! 

Christ above in torment hangs. 

She beneath beholds the pangs 

Of her dying glorious Son. 

Is there one who would not weep,

Whelmed in miseries so deep, 

Christ's dear Mother to behold? 

Can the human heart refrain 

From partaking in her pain, 

In that Mother's pain untold? 

Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, 

She beheld her tender Child,

All with bloody scourges rent. 

For the sins of His own nation, 

Saw Him hang in desolation 

Till His spirit forth He sent. 

O thou Mother: fount of love! 

Touch my spirit from above, 

Make my heart with thine accord. 

Make me feel as thou hast felt; 

Make my soul to glow and melt

With the love of Christ my Lord.

Holy Mother, pierce me through; 

In my heart each wound renew 

Of my Savior crucified. 

Let me share with thee His pain, 

Who for all my sins was slain, 

Who for me in torment died. 

Let me mingle tears with thee, 

Mourning Him who mourned for me, 

All the days that I may live. 

By the Cross with thee to stay; 

There with thee to weep and pray, 

Is all I ask of thee to give. 

Virgin of all virgins best, 

Listen to my fond request:

Let me share thy grief divine.

Let me to my latest breath, 

In my body bear the death 

Of that dying Son of thine. 

Wounded with His every wound, 

Steep my soul till it hath swooned 

In His very blood away.

Be to me, O Virgin, nigh, 

Lest in flames I burn and die,

In His awful Judgment day. 

Christ, when Thou shalt call me hence, 

Be Thy Mother my defense, 

Be Thy Cross my victory.

While my body here decays, 

May my soul Thy goodness praise, 

Safe in Paradise with Thee. Amen.

[1] https://joyfilledfamily.com/2017/04/passion-friday-seven-sorrows-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary.html

[2] https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/stabat-mater.html