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The Pieta, Michelangelo’s masterpiece is near the Great Holy Door, opened by the Holy Father every twenty-five years, almost at the feet of The Pieta. The image of the mother with her dead son in her arms evokes the heartrending, almost inconceivable sorrow of her loss. I think of all the people who have lost children in all kinds of disasters and most recently the senseless massacres in many schools in the United States and probably many other places throughout the world; and I ask God to give them rest from sorrow because God is the only one, the Source, who can do it. I remember something, perhaps R.W. Trine’s writing; “No thing is Firmer and Stronger and Safer and Surer, than God.