Thursday 21 November
Luke 19, 41-44:
“As Jesus drew near Jerusalem and came in sight of the city he shed tears over it and said: “If you in your turn had only understood on this day the message of peace! But alas, it is hidden from your eyes… you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it”.
Today we see Jesus crying. Very few times the Gospels tell us about the cry of Jesus.
And Jesus weeps today because everything that leads to peace is hidden from the eyes of the children of Jerusalem, the holy city.
They have not been able to perceive or evaluate the calling of God through Jesus. They have rejected the message that can lead to true peace.
Jesus is still crying for all of us too when, by closing our eyes to his Gospel of peace, we are open to hatred, to dislike, to rancor, to taking justice into our own hands, closing them to everything that leads us to the peace that he brings us and gives to us.
Today I wish for myself and for all that we may always understand what leads to peace and that we know how to recognize the time of the visit and the coming of the Lord, especially through the most needy.
May Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, change our perspective so that our peace can be reborn with the peace of the Gospel, so that our peace be reborn with the peace of the Lord.
Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
