The Collect for today's feast is important for what we ask:
"O God, who willed that, when your Son was lifted high on the Cross, his Mother should stand close by and share his suffering, grant the your Church, participating with the Virgin Mary in the Passion of Christ, may merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever."
John's Gospel (19-27) tells us: "Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his home."
Mary is our mother and is very close to each of us. She watches over us and is the one who tells her Divine Son what we have need of and then tells us to do whatever Jesus tells us.
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