Fr. Bob’s homily last Sunday…
5th Sunday of Lent B
I cannot remember if I ever mentioned it to you, but I was in the Holy Land in January. One place I have not talked about though is a lovely church about half way down the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem called Dominus Flevit, or “The Lord Wept.” It commemorates the spot of Jesus’ famous lament for the city. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings.” And the remarkable thing about that spot is that if you extend your arms like a hen would spread her wings to gather her young, from that perspective, your arms would encompass the entire walled city of Jerusalem.
And that is exactly what Jesus came to do. To gather us. To make us…
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