Devotion to Mary: the message and the supplication to Our Lady of tears

"Will men understand the arcane language of these tears?" Asked Pope Pius XII in the Radio Message of 1954.

Maria in Syracuse did not speak as in Caterina Labouré in Paris (1830), as in Massimino and Melania in La Salette (1846), as in Bernadette in Lourdes (1858), as in Francesco, Jacinta and Lucia in Fatima (1917), as in Mariette in Banneux (1933).

Tears are the last word, when there are no more words.

Mary's tears are the sign of motherly love and of the Mother's participation in the children's events. Those who love share.

Tears are an expression of God's feelings towards us: a message from God to humanity.

The pressing invitation to conversion of the heart and to prayer, addressed to us by Mary in her apparitions, is once again reaffirmed through the silent but eloquent language of the tears shed in Syracuse.

Maria cried from a humble plaster painting; in the heart of the city of Syracuse; in a house near an evangelical Christian church; in a very modest home inhabited by a young family; about a mother waiting for her first child with gravidic toxicosis. For us, today, all this cannot be meaningless ...

From the choices made by Mary to manifest her tears, the tender message of support and encouragement from the Mother is evident: She suffers and fights together with those who suffer and struggle to defend the value of the family, the inviolability of life, the culture of essentiality, the sense of the Transcendent in the face of prevailing materialism, the value of unity. Mary with her tears warns us, guides us, encourages us, consoles us

Petition to Our Lady of Tears

Madonna of tears,

we need you:

of the light that radiates from your eyes,

of the comfort that emanates from your heart,

of Peace of which you are Queen.

Confident we entrust you with our needs:

our pains because You soothe them,

our bodies to heal them,

our hearts for You to convert them,

our souls because You guide them to salvation.

Worthy, O good Mother,

to join your tears to ours

so that Your divine Son

grant us grace ... (express)

that with such ardor we ask You.

O Mother of Love,

of Pain and Mercy,

have mercy on us.