Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem

We adore You,O Christ and we praise You (Genuflexion) \

R: Because by your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world                                                                                              

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke:(23:26-31)

As they led him away, a great number of people followed him them there were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. But Jesus turned to them and said,”Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are surely coming when they will say, “Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed. Then they will begin to say to mountains. ‘Fall on us; and to the hills, ‘Cover us’. For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Reflection   

Very  often,  many  parents deserve  the  same  rebuke  Jesus  did  to the  women  of Jerusalem  because they  don ‘t give the right education  to their children.  Due to lack of responsibility and  bad  example, parents scandalise their children  and do them big moral  harm  and  at  times physical  and  mental  damage.   Imagine how many  youngsters have gone  astray  and  lost  their  faith  because  they  didn’t get the right  formation from their parents.

 Silence…..Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be

Let us pray 

0 Jesus, make us understand what grave responsibility we have specially in the bringing up of our families.   Keep  all parents away from sin, give them the strength  and  courage to  seek, first, good  religious education  for their children and show them how to accept You as their leader and  teacher a long  their whole life.  Amen.

•  O my Jesus,  forgive us  our sins, preserve  us  from the  fire of Hell, lead all  souls to Heaven,  especially those in need of Thy mercy.
•  My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and l love You.  I beg pardon for those who do not Believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you