Please do not copy or publish these. They are for personal prayer and reflexion only. Thanks. And thanks to Teresa Tomeo for allowing me to share them on Ave Maria Radio and EWTN for the first time.

Eleven Unknown Sorrows of Mary

1.  Annunciation where she accepts something that will cause scandal and misunderstanding

2.  Slaughter of the Innocents, some of whom she may have known, when they died in the place of, and because of her son.

3.  Death of Joseph her husband and protector

4.  First sign (miracle) in Cana when Mary gave him away and said “Good-bye” when she said, “Do whatever he tells you.”

5.  Betrayal of family and neighbors in close-knit Nazareth with attempted assassination of Jesus and Jesus moving away to Capernaum

6.  Hearing Jesus had lost his mind (was demented) and arriving with inability to do anything to help him — (Mark 3:21).

7.  Ascension of Jesus when Jesus physically left her and the earth “Good-bye, my Son”.

8.  Beheading of James in Acts 12 (lived with Mary together in John’s home; he was like a son to her)

9.  Moving away from beloved Jerusalem to the pagan city of Ephesus when John became bishop there

10.  Her own death or dormition though she was sinless

11.  Her sorrow continues today with grief over all those who refuse to follow and love her son; the lost souls dying without hope of heaven

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