Mother of God at the Cross.

(John 19:25-27)

As an eyewitness and participant in the event, only Evangelist John narrates on how the Lord Jesus Christ entrusted the care and concern for the Blessed Mother of God from the cross. When the hateful enemies started to slowly move away from the cross, Virgin Mother of God, Her sister Mary Clopas, Mary Magdalene “and the disciple whom He loved” (as Saint John often refers to himself in the Gospel), who were standing nearby, moved closer to it. With the departure of Christ from this world, His Blessed mother, would have remained alone with no one to look after Her. That’s why with the words: “Woman, behold Your son” and to His disciple: “Behold your Mother!” the Lord entrusts His Blessed Mother to His beloved disciple. “And from that hour that disciple took Her to his own home” — as Church tradition testifies, from that point on until Her death, the Blessed mother lived at Saint John’s, who cared for Her like a loving son. This is especially significant for the following reason. Not letting an opportunity to blaspheme against the Holy Mother of God go by, the protestants and sectarians reject the fact that She was and remained a Virgin. They claim that after Jesus She bore other children, born through natural means from Joseph, and that they were those “Lord’s brothers” that are mentioned in the Gospel. However, this begs the question: if the Blessed Mother of God had Her own children, who undoubtedly could and should have cared for Her as their own Mother, then why was it necessary to entrust Her to a stranger — Saint John? It has to be assumed that Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Theologian remained at the cross till the end, because Saint John points out in his Gospel, that he was a personal eyewitness to the Lord’s death, and to everything that followed (John 19:35).