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Oil painting of the biblical scene at TheLastKiss.org, capturing the poignant moment with Mary cradling Jesus in a manger, as Joseph watches over with solemn reverence, highlighting themes of devotion and sacred farewell.

May the intercessory prayers of Our Lady of Sorrows obtain for all sinners of the world, the grace of true humility with repentance for the sake of His Sorrowful Passion.

We love because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19

Contemplating the Holy Moment

The Last Immaculate Kiss captures the sorrowful moment as Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Sorrows, agonizes over the loss of her only Son.  Our Lady of Sorrows, has bathed her only Son with her mournful tears of lamentation.  As written in The Poem of the Man God, “She kisses His wounded heart. How many wounds!  How much you have suffered. I will use kisses and tears and I will warm you with my breath and my love.“

The stone not yet rolled against the entrance of the tomb, reveals the continents of the world. From the innocence of our Savior’s birth to the ultimate sacrifice, God gives the world His only begotten Son to all those who believe and seek Him with all their heart, soul, and mind.

Nicodemus at the foot of His stone bed, now with an awakening soul, understands the gravity of our Lord’s prophetic and solemn words spoken to him in the darkness of the night.  “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life.”   For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.  John 3:14-17

Our Savior of the world, rests on His Holy bed as our Mother Mary’s tear-stained face beholds her only Son’s Immaculate Sacred bloody body clothed in linen and resting inside a cave, “hewn out of the rock” (Mark 15:46) and “a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid”.   (John 19:41)

The Holy Sepulcher beckons the stone to be sealed and our Lord’s great descent into the 3 days of darkness might begin as Nicodemus ponders his prophetic words spoken to his fellow Pharisees, as his Lord by the letter of Law has been condemned without a hearing. (John 7:51) Nicodemus and our Mater Dolorosa torment the greatest sorrow of all sorrows.