Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
As Jesus drew near Jerusalem, he saw the city and wept over it, saying,
“If this day you only knew what makes for peace but now it is hidden from your
eyes. For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade
against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will
smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave
one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of
your visitation.”
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Reflection:
Why is it
that some people are so peaceful and not worried about life even if the environment
around them is worrisome? The reason behind is they’ve learned to surrender
everything to Jesus. They listen to Jesus by way of their active prayer life
and they’ve let Jesus take control of their lives and not them taking control.
When
Jesus was nearing Jerusalem He was very sad and He wept for its people because
they did not listen to God’s call of repentance (Through the prophets). They
purposely blinded themselves to the reality of repentance, why? Because they
love to sin and they liked what this sinful world offered them, they never
cared to be concerned of the punishing outcome of their sinfulness.
Jesus
loves us so dearly that He wants all of us to listen to Him. So that we could
be spared of the dreadful punishment that is due to those who do not care to
listen to Him. He also weep for us
everytime we sin, everytime we don’t to listen to Him.
When
everything is said and done and we are already suffering for the reason of our
sinfulness we have nobody to blame but ourselves. However, why let this very
harsh event called punishment come to us? When we could actually avoid it by
means of opening our hearts to the love and mercy of Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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