 But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. Mary, you teach us there to be faithful in good times and bad. Fidelity also in failure or apparent failure. This is loyalty, isn't it? Do we stand by people even in failure? Are we loyal even with that human virtue of loyalty? They say that rats are the first to leave a sinking ship.