Christ so loved His Blessed Mother that such a thought of such mourning and sorrow as she would feel in her Earthly life would have filled Him with such an intensity of Grief.
I have been reflecting a great deal on the tears of Christ.
He really did not cry when I would have expected Him to. After all, He could have cried when the Pharisees misinterpreted all his works and deeds, but He did not. He could have cried when His disciples – His very best friends in all the world – those people who had lived with Him for years, the people who He had taught and loved and spoken with and laughed with all deserted Him to die alone and in pain. But He did not cry then either.
Even on the Cross, when His Holy Body was hung naked and alone exposed to the world – having been kicked and beaten and spat on and scorned – even then He did not cry.
Christ only cried when He stood outside Jerusalem and knew that He would be scorned by the very people form whom He had become incarnate. He cried when He saw the widow carrying her dead son for burial and again He cried when His friend Lazarus died. And I have always thought those tears were strange. After all, why cry over Jerusalem? If they rejected Him surely the rest of us could benefit from Catholicism – which was opened up to us when the Chosen People refused to accept their Messiah? But I consider this situation from God’s perspective. If He became incarnate of the Blessed Virgin through the Intercession of the Holy Spirit, there was a reason for that. It means that God had a plan that was so beautiful and perfect that if the Israelites had accepted Him as Messiah, the entire world as we know it would have been completely different. And that means that we mucked things up in such a way that God Himself cried tears of frustration and sorrow knowing that our free will was preventing His perfect plan.
And when He cried for the dead men, He was not really crying about dying. After all, Christ – of all people – knew that death was merely an opportunity to enter into eternal life. So, why cry over a couple of dead boys when He knew they would be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? My guess is that He did not cry for the dead – just as He told the women of Jerusalem not to weep for Him. My guess, is that He cried for those who lived to mourn. Because in them He saw His Blessed Mother and He felt her suffering.
And Christ – God Himself – so loved His Blessed Mother that such a thought of such mourning and sorrow as she would feel in her Earthly life would have filled Him with such an intensity of Grief.
And I have been thinking about that today as I have been reflecting on the tears of Christ, because it seemed that He mourned the fact that His Mother would have to say good-bye to him for a time. And I feel such sorrow knowing that my Beloved would have felt such a pain as that…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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