Cum vidisset Jesus

Cum vidisset Jesus matrem stantem juxta crucem, et discipulum quem diligebat, dicit matri suae: Mulier, ecce filius tuus. Deinde dicit discipulo: Ecce mater tua.

(When Jesus saw his mother standing by the cross, and the disciple whom he loved, he said to her: 'Woman, behold your son.' Then he said to the disciple: 'Behold your mother.')

Antiphon on the Feast of the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary

(based on John 19: 26-27a)

English translation by Edward Tambling