Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Advice to sorrowful Wives and Mothers

Jesus appears to various people at different places after resurrection. While appearing to his devout disciple named Johanna of Chuza, Jesus tries to console her for her sorrows. He says, "The Master has not left you. Jesus never leaves the souls who have become his spiritual spouses….Love your upset husband patiently and submissively. Increase your kindness all the more as he fosters the bitterness of human fears in himself. Increase your spiritual brightness the more he gives off shadows of human interests….How many women, in future, will have to choose between the will of God and that of their husbands! But they will be great when, above love and maternity, they follow God. Your passion is beginning. Yes. But you can see that every passion ends in a resurrection….Climb your Calvary of a wife with the help of my caress and with that of your innocent child…." (V. 5, Ch. 618, P. 721). 

This advice is applicable to all sorrowful wives who experience the bitterness of married life. While appearing to Mary, the grieved mother of Judas, at Kerioth, Jesus says, "Do not depart from your justice because of the sin of another person. The mothers who have fulfilled their duty must not consider themselves responsible for the sins of their sons. You have done your duty, Mary. Give me your poor hands. Be calm, poor mother….I have purified you, Mary. My tears of compassion are on you. I have not shed my tears on anybody since I consumed my sorrow. But I am weeping over you with all my loving pity….Your son was not able to give me anything. Give me a period of time of your suffering. It will be a short one….Your sorrow serves. It joins these wounds of mine, and your tears and my blood wash the world. All sorrows join together to wash the world. Your tears are between my blood and the tears of my mother and around them there is all the sorrow of the saints who will suffer for the Christ and for men, for my sake and for the sake of men. Lay your hope in the Lord. He will give you all his comfort….My tears and my kiss! No one has ever had so much from me. So be at peace, because there is nothing but love between you and me." (V. 5, Ch. 628, P. 795-796). 

These consoling words of Jesus give plenty of comfort to all mothers who grieve for the sins of their children. Jesus appears to some peasant women in the fields of Johanan and says, "Bear your crosses as I bore mine. Be patient. Forgive. They will tell you how I died. Imitate me. The way of sorrow is the way to Heaven. Follow it in peace and you will have my Kingdom. There is no other way beside that of resignation to the will of God, of generosity, and of charity towards everybody. If there were another one, I should have pointed it out to you. I have come along this one because it is the just way." (V. 5, Ch. 628, P. 815).

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