No child wants to see their parents cry.
How often does that ever happen?
How else to feel but
sorry…
helpless…

I can imagine Your pain
when You saw Your mother weeping for You.
You stopped
and comforted her.

Life is so short.
What is a hundred years?
Gone in the blink of an eye.

I used to think
a thousand years in purgatory
seems like forever.
But now I realise
it is just ten lifetimes.

But the most precious lifetime
is the one I have now —
especially while I still have my parents.

Teach me when to stop,
and how to comfort them.

By Your Holy Cross,
comfort us.
Redeem us.