Worn out with grief

Mother of Sorrow, by iconographer Céline Magnan

As she saw her own Lamb being dragged to slaughter, Mary, the Ewe-lamb, worn out with grief, followed with other women, crying out, ‘Where are you going, my Child? For whose sake are you completing the course so fast? Is there once again another wedding in Cana? And are you hurrying there now to make wine for them from water? Should I go with you, my Child, or rather wait for you? Give me a word, O Word; do not pass me by in silence, you who kept me pure, My Son and my God.’

~ the Ikos of Holy Friday