Blogspot :Crescent Moon and Venus this morning.
Fr. Raymond alerted me, but missing camera.
See Internet - well covered.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Raymond
To: T. . .
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012, 8:27
Subject: THE COMPASSION OF JESUS
From: Raymond
To: T. . .
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012, 8:27
Subject: THE COMPASSION OF JESUS
THE COMPASSION OF JESUS
Compassion is a kind of hallmark of the mission of Jesus on earth. It was the driving force of all his miracles of healing. This can be deduced from his sometimes requesting that the person he healed should not tell anyone. His healing of them was an act of pure compassion for them and had no ulterior motive, not even the spread his own fame. Again we have a witness to his compassion when we see him weeping over Jerusalem, his own city: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! How often would I have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings.” (This beautiful imagery is, to some extent lost on us who no longer belong to an agrarian society.)
Christ’s compassion continued all through his ministry right to the end. On his way up to Calvary itself he turned to the women of Jerusalem who weeping for him at the roadside, and looking at them, and looking through them, to all the suffering and tragedies of the human race down the centuries, he said: “Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children”.
What greater statement could he have given of his enduring compassion to the very end?
