Alive-O 4
Term 3: Lesson 1
Mary Our Mother
Mary Remembers
When Jesus had been taken down from the cross
and laid in the tomb, his friends took Mary, his
mother, home.
She was very tired. Her friends told her to try to
get some rest. But she could not rest. She could
not sleep. She kept thinking back over what had
happened to her son.
She remembered what Peter had told her – how
Jesus had been very afraid and how he had gone
to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray to the
Father to help him and be with him, to give him
strength and courage.
She remembered how the soldiers had tied her
son to a pillar and beaten him.
She remembered the crown of thorns which they
had placed on his head while they mocked him
and called him ‘King of the Jews.’
She remembered the huge heavy cross which
they had placed on his shoulders and forced him
to carry it all the way up the hill. She
remembered how he had fallen three times
under the weight of the cross.
She remembered his body, hanging on that
cross, until eventually his strength and his
breath gave up and he died.
Mary said to herself, ‘I will remember these as
the five most sorrowful moments in my life.’
The Rosary
The Sorrowful Mysteries of
the Rosary
The First Sorrowful Mystery –
The Agony in the Garden
The Second Sorrowful Mystery- the
Scourging at the Pillar
The Third Sorrowful Mystery the
Crowning with thorns
The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery the
Carrying of the Cross
The Fifth Sorrowful Mystery the
Crucifixion
Bible Searches
• Mt 26: 36-46;
• Mk 14: 32-42;
• Lk 22: 39-46
• Mt 26: 47-56;
• Mk 14: 43-50
• Lk 22;47-53;
•Jn 18:3-12