by using the tender name of Mother. He recommends to her care His disciple St. John, and in him all Christians, in order that she, who is so powerful before God, might be a Mother to us all. She accepts the charge willingly, and hence she is deservedly styled by the Saints, " the Mother of the living." Recommend yourself, therefore, to her, and say with the Church, " Show thyself a mother."
III. " Behold your mother." He wishes you to have recourse to her, as a child has to his mother, and to love and respect her as your own parent. By this expression He also teaches you to love, respect, and assist your parents to their last breath. Observe how He recommends the virgin John to His virgin Mother. Be therefore a lover of chastity, if you wish to be ranked among the sons of Mary. Imitate St. John in devotion to your sacred Mother. " From that hour the disciple took her to His own." (John xix. 27.)
PALM SUNDAY.
Christ a mild King.
"Behold, thy King cometh to thee, meek." (Matt. xxi. 5.)
I. "Behold, thy King cometh to thee, meek." " Thou art thyself, my King and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob." (Ps. xliii. 5.) Upon other occasions He displays Himself to us as the King of majesty, a powerful King, or the King of terrors; but in His passion He assumes the character of a mild King, who, "when He suffered, He threatened not." (1 Pet. ii. 23.) The same being is, therefore, to-day represented seated on an ass, who on other occasions "sitteth on the Cherubim, and walketh on the wings of the winds." (Ps. xcviii. 1 and ciii. 3.) In this character of mildness He will
