Four years ago, a newspaper ran a story about a young woman who fell into a swollen, dirty river filled with debris, in Lawrence, Kansas, carrying her five miles downstream, with the river pulling her under.
The crowd or majority is fickle, malleable, and readily manipulated. Our Lady of Kibeho warned that the world is "rushing towards ruin" and in rebellion against God, urging immediate repentance, prayer, and conversion.
Mary stated, "The world hastens to its ruin, it will fall into the abyss... If you do not repent and do not convert your hearts, you will fall into the abyss." Into the torrent.
There is another kind of river which comes by knowing how to cry…. like Mary.
Abba Isaac said, ‘I was sitting with Abba Poemen one day and I saw him in ecstasy. I was on terms of great freedom of speech with him so I prostrated myself before him and begged him, saying, ‘Tell me where you were’.
He was forced to answer and he said, ‘My thought was with Saint Mary, the Mother of God, as she wept by the cross of the Savior. I wish I could always weep like that’
We can experience the same thing as this great hermit. He learned how to read the Bible with the Mother of the Word, which is also the title revealed to us by Our Lady at Kibeho.
Mary’s tears went beyond compassion for her Son. She recognized how great God’s love is for people. God is willing the sacrifice His only begotten Son for us!
How to cry?
Mary will teach you. To cry with Mary means to know the love of God which is ready to suffer anything. To cry with her and like her means to awaken in one’s soul an inconsolable longing for God, Who is everything.
To cry with her and like her means to experience deep sorrow because many souls are lost, heading towards damnation.
To cry like Mary is affective Marian piety not sentimental cheap grace.
We don’t need to dry her tears. We need them to contemplate in order to learn to cry as she does.
Going back to the young woman who fell into the river. She struggled as the river would pull her under, and she realized that she would die if she continued this way. She decided to allow her body to go limp, and that is what saved her life.
It allowed her to float to conserve energy, and follow the safest, non-aggressive path to shore.
St. John of the Cross says the soul that desires God must surrender to Him. It calls for abandoning selfish desires, ego, and self-reliance, placing one's entire being—soul, body, and will—under God's authority to achieve true peace, spiritual freedom, and divine intimacy.
A surrendered life to God needs to be guarded. It is treasure of unimaginable wealth.
Above all guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it, Proverbs 4:23 tells us.
To live according this maximum is not fall in the swollen river: “I avoid negative influences that might distract me from God’s will and purpose, to take responsibility for the environments, including digital, we place ourselves into, the ideas we expose our minds to.” [Matthew Kelly].
“I Wish I Could Always Weep Like That”—Like Mary. We can. It is within our power.
Enter into this Holy River of Seven Streams. Described as "a river of mercy flowing from her heart," that gives Freedom from remorse, obsessions and addictions. These tears are considered a gift of divine love that can wash away sin and offer consolation to sinners.
Mary’s tears at the Sacred Passion flow alongside the torrent of Jesus’ tears and share potentially in them like two rivers watering our souls.
Principle source: Wincenty Laszewski, To Weep Like Mary, Marian Press, 2025
