Daily Gospel Reflection for June 9, 2025

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: John 19:25-34

There is our dear Mother Mary, standing at the foot of the cross. Her sorrow is unimaginable. Her only son, the one presumed to be the Messiah, the great healer, the miracle worker, is nailed to a cross. He is dying. The most perfect man who ever lived is being tortured to death. 

And there before Him is the most perfect mother who ever lived. She would not leave Him. She is enduring unthinkable pain and sorrow.

Jesus tells His mother that John is her son. He then tells John that she is his mother. Of course, John would have taken care of her. Jesus is not thinking only of her material provision. He is thinking of the spiritual and emotional needs of all humanity.

Barring psychopathology, there is no one who will ever love you as your mother does. Mothers would die for their children. From day one. Some of us had good relationships with our mothers, however imperfect they were. Others may have longed for a mother who met more of their needs, perhaps a mother who was less troubled. 

Motherlove is potentially the closest to unconditional love we will ever experience. And Jesus, in the agony of His Passion, gives us a mother who indeed offers us that perfect, unconditional love.

We mothers need nurturing too. We can’t pour from an empty pitcher. Let us turn to our heavenly mother often, asking her to be a mother to us, especially in our darkest and most trying moments.

Our Blessed Mother is always there for us, always interceding for us, always loving us as no earthly mother can. Jesus, the good, obedient Son, listens to her. And just as happened at the wedding at Cana, He does what she asks.

Ponder:

How can I grow in my relationship with the Blessed Mother?

Pray:

O Lord, help me to turn continually to our Blessed Mother, drawing on her unconditional love and intercession.

Copyright 2025 Rosemary Bogdan