The Three Marys

It is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows today. The gospel was very short.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 19:25-27.

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

And although I have heard these passages many times over the years, when I heard it today the term"tatlong Maria" (three Marys) suddenly made sense.