“To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
Friends, in recent months I’ve been reflecting more and more on that heartfelt prayer to Mary from the Salve Regina – the Hail Holy Queen.
In many ways our world these days is like a “valley of tears”. We seem surrounded by bad news: of war and violence, greed and hunger, extreme weather events, viruses, human trafficking and many attacks on the dignity of human life.
