"in company with Mary"

We too are asked to take up as readily and as devotedly as possible the little crosses that come our way, to bear them with Him and for Him, and to go on unflaggingly -- to go on if necessary to the mountain of myrrh, to the darkness and the burial: that is the way to know something of the inexpressible joy of that other, later meeting of Son and mother, when the day indeed had broken, the dawn indeed had come, and there was only joy for them now, and the shared happiness of their love, the love that, having gone down in silence together to the very depths of human agony, now rose together to the heights of more than human glory, to that joy of which no tongue can tell, but which is promised in God's mercy to all those who, in company with Mary, try to love and follow and serve her Son to the end.  ~Rev. Gerald Vann, O.P.

Dear Mary, Mother of Christ and our Mother too, I beg you, help me to try to love and follow and serve your Son to the end.  Amen.