As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, ‘If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.’
JESUS WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM
There is but one face
whose holy eyes
won't turn away,
but focus on us
and weep...
Jesus, you!
like a mother hen
yearning to gather us to you,
but we would not...
for we have killed the prophets
and stoned the messengers.
Now abandoned and empty,
the stones of the temple
waiting to fall
around our ankles,
we still do not come
to you,
and, even now,
you weep.
--Ann Barr Weems, Kneeling in Jerusalem, 1993
Dear Sisters and Brothers, Easter is coming...
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