"Woman, Behold Your Son, Behold Your Mother"

The column today is dedicated to women whose sons were killed by summary executions, wars, crimes, and other forms of extra-judicial just systems, and to sons who lost their mothers who had to work as migrant workers and the got raped, killed or prosecuted for concocted offenses abroad.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

In his Gospel, Saint John in Chapter 19, Verses 26 to 27, tells of the third among the Seven last words of our Lord Jesus, while hanging on the cross: "Woman, behold your son" and looking at John, the beloved apostle" Behold your mother". What are our reflections on this biblical passage?

Since I am not a man of the cloth or any pastor who is competent to make commentaries on the Testaments, both Old and New, I would not like to explain the scriptural meaning of this important passage in the Holy Book. I would rather make a spin to make this passage relate to mothers who lost their sons in the world's many wars and armed struggles, as well as Filipino moms who lost their sons allegedly due to state-sponsored extra-judicial killings and summary executions. I also refer to OFWs and their families who lost many loved ones due to migration.