Kaho Church or Lady of Sorrows Chapel Macau
The Kaho Church is the second small church in Coloane was built in 1966 to serve the needs of the settlement of Ka Ho where the families of cured lepers live.
Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel Macau is a good walk from the Westin Plaza. Overlooking the big garden in front of the Church is huge bronze crucifix over the north door. This crucifix was created and given to Ka Ho by Italian sculptor Francisco Messima.
Also associated with the building of Kaho Church is the name of another Italian sculptor, Oseo Acconci.
About the Feasts of the
Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
from the Catholic Encyclopedia
The seven dolours of Mary (according to the responsories of Matins:
the sorrow
* at the prophecy of Simeon;
* at the flight into Egypt;
* having lost the Holy Child at Jerusalem;
* meeting Jesus on his way to Calvary;
* standing at the foot of the Cross;
* Jesus being taken from the Cross;
* at the burial of Christ.
There are two such days:
* Friday before Palm Sunday, major double;
* third Sunday in September double of the second class.
The object of these feats is the spiritual martyrdom of the Mother of God and her compassion with the sufferings of her Divine Son.
The seven founders of the Servite Order, in 1239, five years after they established themselves on Monte Senario, took up the sorrows of Mary, standing under the Cross, as the principal devotion of their order.
The corresponding feast, however, did not originate with them; its celebration was enacted by a provincial synod of Cologne (1413) to expiate the crimes of the iconoclast Hussites; it was to be kept on the Friday after the third Sunday after Easter under the title: "Commemoratio angustix et doloris B. Marix V.". Its object was exclusively the sorrow of Mary during the Crucifixion and Death of Christ.
Before the sixteenth century this feast was limited to the dioceses of North Germany, Scandinavia, and Scotland. Towards the end of the end of the sixteenth century the feast spread over part of the south of Europe
After 1600 it became popular in France and was termed "Dominx N. de Pietate", Friday before Palm Sunday. By a Decree of 22 April 1727, Benedict XIII extended it to the entire Latin Church, under the title "Septem dolorum B.M.V.", although the Office and Mass retain the original character of the feast, the Compassion of Mary at the foot of the Cross. At both Mass and Office the "Stabat Mater" of Giacopone da Todi (1306) is sung.
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