Thursday 33rd week year A

Tears unspoken words and feelings of our hearts. We feel something,  we can't express in words and so it comes out as tears.

Two persons shed tears in our Liturgy today: St John in our first reading 📖 and Jesus in Gospel.

St John was crying because no one could open the scroll 📜 for him. He could not open it,  only One person can, and that person is described as the Lamb that was slain. The scroll was so important to John that he had to start crying 😢. Yes because the scroll contained the secret revelations of the Kingdom of God .

Don't we find ourselves in such situations at times ? We look for things when we don't get, tears start rolling down our cheeks. And some of us , may have experienced a deepest longing in our hearts at prayers . Moments when you are deeply in touched with the Divine, words are no longer adequate . The only thing that comes out is tears. The tears helps to communicate what you are short of in words and God understands and respond immediately .

The Bible never records that Jesus laughed, no. But two to three Times, it recorded that He cried, he wept and he wailed. John 11:35 at the death of his beloved friend, Lazarus . At the garden of Gethsemane Hebrews 5:7 and the gospel of today where He wept over Jerusalem .

The weeping of Christ means that He shares in our Sorrows and pains, in our misfortunes and failures. He understands our weaknesses. and so when you Are in distress and seems you are Not getting it right, don't panic because you have a saviour who understands and who is standing by you, supporting you.

In today's Gospel, Christ wept for Jerusalem because the city did not live up to its name . Jerusalem means city of peace. But peace is not found there instead we have violence and disobedience to the words Of Jesus. And Jesus cries over the city .

Hmmm, is Jesus not crying because of some of us? You bear a Christian name, you chose the names or they were given to you. Are you living up to the meaning of your name? Is your name faith? Are you faithful to your Christian calling ? Are you David , do You have or have you asked the enabling graces to face and overcome all the Goliath in your life.

But the name that envelopes all of us is the name CHRISTIAN which means Christ-like . Are you really behaving like Christ ?

May God not cry over us through Christ our Lord .