Does the Seven Sorrows Devotion contradict the Catechism?

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CCC 149:
Throughout her life and until her last ordeal when Jesus her son died on the cross, Mary’s faith never wavered. She never ceased to believe in the fulfillment of God’s word. And so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith.
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The Seven Sorrows Devotion has Jesus being buried as the last ordeal. Is the devotion defective?
 
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The death of Jesus was an ordeal of faith while the burial of the body of Christ was a sorrow of hers.
 
No, it’s not defective. However, a misunderstood version of the devotion could be.
 
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The Seven Sorrows Devotion has Jesus being buried as the last ordeal. Is the devotion defective?
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No. Note the seven scriptures
  1. Luke II, 34-35
  2. Matt. II, 13-14
  3. Luke II, 43-45
  4. Luke XXIII, 27
  5. John XIX, l8-25-27
  6. Mark XV, 43-46
  7. John XIX, 41-42
 
NO

The Stations of the Cross also has “Jesus is laid in the tomb” as the last Station.
Meditating on the Burial of Jesus is a normal part of meditating on Christ’s Passion.
Don’t be so literal.

Edited to add, “when Jesus Her Son died on the cross” is a broad statement encompassing all of the surrounding events of His dying on the cross, including being taken down from the cross and put in the tomb.
 
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Unless you have that newfangled mess of the LAST station as the Resurrection. Don’t get me started.
 
That also used to bug my mother, that they added the Resurrection. I have mixed feelings about it.
The Resurrection is not part of the Passion and if you’re doing the Stations in Lent it’s not “Resurrection time” yet.
But when you’re a young child doing Stations, it was nice to be reminded that there was a happy ending and it didn’t just finish with poor dead Jesus being put in the tomb, the end.
 
While Jesus’ body and His divinty lay in the tomb, His soul (and divinity) descended into Hell, which He harrowed. Like all the sorrows, this last one was a blessing for believers.
 
It was just a plain ol’ sorrow when it was all happening though, because none of the believers really knew what Jesus was doing or that He was going to rise, until he actually did it.
 
They were a little slow to catch on at times. Good, simple men. But they became the greatest evangelists for Christ the world has ever known.
 
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