Devotion to the Madonna of Syracuse: the message of Mary's tears

Will men understand the mysterious language of these tears? », Pope Pius XII asked himself, in the Radio Message of 1954. Maria in Syracuse did not speak as she did to Caterina Labouré in Paris (1830), as to Maximin 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 maternal love and the participation of the Mother in the affairs of the children. 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 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 wept from a humble chalk picture; in the heart of the city of Syracuse; in a house near an evangelical Christian church; in a very modest house inhabited by a young family; about a mother expecting her first child suffering from toxicosis gravidarum. For us, today, all this cannot be without meaning ... From the choices Mary made to show us her tears, the tender message of support and encouragement from the Mother is evident: She suffers and struggles together with those who suffer and struggle to defend the 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 admonishes us, guides us, encourages us, comforts us

Supplication

Our Lady of Tears, we need you: the light that radiates from your eyes, the comfort that emanates from your heart, the peace of which you are Queen. Confident we entrust you with our needs: our pains because you soothe them, our bodies because you heal them, our hearts because you convert them, our souls because you guide them to safety. Deign, good Mother, to unite Your tears to ours so that Your divine Son will grant us the grace ... (to express) that we ask you with such ardor. O Mother of Love, of Pain and Mercy,
have mercy on us.