There are two instances in which we are told that Jesus wept. The first of these was at the death of Lazarus and the other was given to us in today’s Gospel. As we were told when it pertained to Lazarus, “And Jesus wept.” And as we were told here, “When Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it.”
This is what we call to mind when we celebrate Palm Sunday. It was here that Jesus joyfully entered into the holy city of Jerusalem were the crowds received Him as a king. Despite all the joy that surrounded this occasion He stops and weeps. In the city of Jerusalem there is a church which is built called “Dominus Flevit” “The Lord Wept.” It was here that Jesus stopped to weep and thus it is built in the shape of a teardrop.
Jesus is found weeping over the city of Jerusalem because of His divine knowledge and the fact that He knows that He will be rejected by the people of this city. These people had received their opportunity for salvation and they would reject it. He wept in order that these people would accept Him as being the Son of God.
There are many ways in which our modern world currently rejects Christ as being the Son of God. To all of these accounts that come to mind we can assume that Christ continues to weep with the desire that they may return to Him and His mercy. We should desire to stay close to Him and to move away from sin which always separates us from Him. We should be concerned with those who have moved far from the Lord and pray that they may come to know Him by how they come to live and order their life on this earth.
As we are told concerning the tears of our Lord in the Book of Hebrews, “In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.”
Therefore, the Lord desires that we turn towards Him in order that we may be saved from death. As we pray in the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, “For your loving tears we will console you, O Lord.” Let us remain with the Lord always for He weeps for us in order that we may turn away from sin and stay close to Him always.
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