 So what are the seven sorrows? I'll name them and then we'll walk through all of them. The first is the prophecy of Simeon in the temple that a sword would pierce her heart. The second is the flight to Egypt of the Holy Family, leaving everything behind for likely about eight years. The third is the loss of the child Jesus in the temple for three days when he was about 12 years old. A friend of mine said this, and I never really thought of it before. She said this a couple months ago when we were doing a Bible study.