If so they treat green wood, which will take place of dry wood? (Lk 23,27-31)
Reflections on the eighth station of the Via Crucis: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, from Via Crucis Online organized by LGBT Christian Adults Project March 26, 2020
A great crowd of people and women who fought their chest followed him and complained about him. But Jesus, turning to the women, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not cry over me, but cry over yourself and your children. Here, there will be days in which they will say: blessed the steriles and aprons they have not generated and the breasts that have not breastfed. Then they will begin to say to the mountains:
Fall on us! And to the hills: cover us! Why if they treat green wood, which will take place of dry wood? ». (Luke 23,27-31)
Meditation by Sister Fabrizia
Women cry, following Jesus, on the Golgotha. They cry as they have always cried for every life that turns off. And just to them, passionate custodians of life, Jesus asks to change gaze.
He is not the true sentenced to death. Jesus is choosing life once again; He chooses to fully live that love that only gives existence, that love that only can make it flourish and make it fruitful, even transforming the cross into a new life tree.
Sentenced are rather those who, out of fear, give up to love, seal their heart and, keeping life for themselves, see her faded, drying, chasing. Those who love, even if they die, live. Those who do not love, even if they seem to live, are already dead.
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