Our Lady of Sorrows

12For just as the body is one, and yet has many parts, so all the parts of the body, though they are many, are only one body. So also is Christ. 13And indeed, in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether servant or free. And we all drank in the one Spirit. 14For the body, too, is not one part, but many.

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27Now you are the body of Christ, and parts like any part. 28And indeed, God has established a certain order in the Church: first Apostles, second Prophets, third Teachers, next miracle-workers, and then the grace of healing, of helping others, of governing, of different kinds of languages, and of the interpretation of words. 29Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all Teachers? 30Are all workers of miracles? Do all have the grace of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31But be zealous for the better charisms. And I reveal to you a yet more excellent way.

1A Psalm of Confession.

2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation.

3Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

4Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name.

5For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.

25And standing beside the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, and Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26Therefore, when Jesus had seen his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son.” 27Next, he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple accepted her as his own.