Tuesday of Holy Week “When Jesus came in sight of Jerusalem, he shed tears over it” (Lk 19:41). Yet the Lord wept not so much for the earthly city, but for the souls of its inhabitants.” The people for whom Jesus wept probably considered themselves great realists and saw him as an out-of-touch idealist. They simply found the kingdom of God that he preached as requiring too many changes to what they regarded as “normal.” It was much easier to dismiss him than to consider the possibility that they might have things upside down. Many people alive in Jesus’ day lived to see Jerusalem and its temple destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Praying with Saint Anthony “God, help us trust in you so completely that you will become everything to everyone” (1 Cor 15:28, RSV, Catholic Edition).
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