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AI voice and translation. Fr is a priest of the Resistance.


In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, so be it.
Well, dear brothers, it is always good to read the Gospel, to open the word of God,
because this word, as Jesus says, is spirit and life.
And if this word was spoken about 2000 years ago, it has not aged a bit; it is as alive now as it was 2000 years ago.
Because Jesus still lives, and Jesus is God, and it is the word of God.
And this word must touch us deeply, not just on the outside.
We hear, and then we forget what has been said.
No, the word of God is important; it is God himself who speaks.
So let us take the word of God seriously, and more than that,
everything that Jesus Christ does or suffers, it is he who, through his acts or this passion, will act in our souls.
And today, there is a quite rare, though not unique, event in the life of Jesus,
which is his tears, his weeping.
Jesus Christ wept; imagine, he wept.
He who is God, he weeps.
One might say, but tears are for men or women.
Jesus is a man, and Jesus wept.
Certainly, in the Summa, it says that it was not fitting for Jesus to laugh,
or to smile; he did not laugh, Jesus Christ, because laughter comes from surprise.
And Jesus is everything.
So it was not fitting for Jesus to smile, but he wept.
He wept.
He wept several times.
From his birth, the Christmas hymn says it very well.
Yes, the child Jesus weeps, because he is God.
And from the moment of his conception, he is aware of the sins of men.
And he knows why he comes here on earth.
Moreover, he says it to his father.
He assumes this prophecy of Psalm 2.
I have come to do your will.
The old sacrifices in the Old Testament, the lambs, bulls, heifers, doves, all that is very beautiful.
But it is obsolete.
When he comes here on earth, all of that is outdated.
He comes to do his will.
He comes to suffer as a sacrifice on the cross.
In 33 years.
But from now on, from Christmas, from his conception, he is a priest.
Jesus Christ is not going to become a priest on Holy Thursday.
It is men, yes, the priests, the apostles, who will be on Holy Thursday.
But he is a priest from the very start, from his conception.
And why is he a priest?
To redeem us.
And this redemption is terrible.
And this redemption is painful.
And he suffers.
And he weeps.
Jesus Christ, in his public life, will weep several times.
Remember, today, today, in this Gospel according to Saint Luke, in the chapter, you will see in your missals,
Jesus Christ weeps over Jerusalem.
He weeps over this city which is his city.
Because it is his temple into which he enters.
And this temple has been despised.
They have made it a cave, he says, a den of robbers.
They buy and sell in this temple of God.
So Jesus Christ takes whips.
They were there; the whips were for cattle.
He takes these whips and enters in holy anger.
A holy anger.
Sometimes our angers are not holy.
Be careful.
When we try to imitate our holy Jesus Christ, let us not say, it is a holy anger.
There are sometimes passions that are not quite holy.
But in Jesus Christ, it is a holy anger.
Because he sees the interests of his Father.
Whom he always wants to do his will.
At all times, in all places, in all circuмstances.
So he weeps.
He weeps over Jerusalem.
Who does he say, O Jerusalem, who has been so sown by the prophets, and you who kill the prophets?
Jeremiah, Isaiah, the great prophets and the minor prophets have all passed through the sword or something else.
Stoning for Jeremiah, Isaiah sawed in two with a wooden saw.
Imagine.
An image of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified between two thieves.
Our Lord Jesus Christ weeps over Jerusalem.
And beyond material Jerusalem.
What is Jerusalem?
Jerusalem is my soul.
Jesus Christ weeps over my soul.
My sinful soul because of sin.
So perhaps, I do not want to part with it.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, so many times I have visited you and you have not listened to me, you have not received me.
Our Lord Jesus Christ visits Jerusalem.
Our Lord Jesus Christ visits our souls.
Are we attentive to these visits?
Are we listening to these visits?
Or do we say to Jesus, very well, but come back another time.
I do not have time for you.
I do not have time for you.
Let us have time for our Lord Jesus Christ.
He has time for us.
He visits us.
And it is not just a word; it is a reality, my dear brothers.
He visits us at all times, in all places, in all circuмstances.
This morning, therefore.
Jesus Christ also weeps.
Or he weeps when he goes to the tomb of Lazarus.
Lazarus has been dead for four days.
And Jesus goes, one might say, finally, to his tomb.
For he says, but at first, this illness is not for death.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
We know, it is in Saint John, in chapter 11.
Read chapter 11 of Saint John.
It is the resurrection of Lazarus.
And those who see Jesus weep are astonished and at the same time admire the tears of Jesus saying, oh, how he loved this man.
Indeed, Lazarus is the friend of Jesus.
An intimate friend with Martha and Mary.
The former sinner, Mary Magdalene, of whose name they had even lost track.
She was the sinner.
But from her conversion, she is no longer the sinner.
She is Magdalene.
Whom Jesus Christ will call by her name, her first name, on the morning of the resurrection, Mary.
Mary.
And we celebrate, my dear brothers, Saint Mary Magdalene tomorrow, July 22.
Pray Saint Mary Magdalene.
As for her, our Lord Jesus Christ wants to visit us as he visited her.
He visited her.
He let her in.
And certainly, our Lord Jesus Christ, when Mary Magdalene wept over her sins at Jesus' feet, Jesus Christ was not made of marble.
Like Simon the Pharisee who says, but if he knew who this sinner was, he would not let her do that.
But Jesus knows that this sinner is no longer a sinner.
She is repentant.
She is penitent.
And by the way, that is the title we bestow on Mary Magdalene.
Look at her in the missal, on July 22.
Mary Magdalene the penitent.
She wept for her sins.
Because she saw the heart of Jesus weeping for our sins.
How important it is.
One day, the Curé d'Ars, I told this story here this week.
This beautiful story.
One of the stories I told.
But I will tell you the only one that interests our purpose this morning.
It is the Curé d'Ars who confessed countless times, on average 18 hours a day.
Imagine that too.
There are not many priests, and I am not one of them,
who know these 18 hours of daily confession like the Curé d'Ars or Padre Pio,
19 hours sometimes.
Confessors.
And well, one day, a penitent confesses.
He had written his sins on a list.
And he thought that at the end of his sins, he was done.
Now, my father, give me absolution and I will leave.
But the Curé d'Ars saw in his soul, in the soul of this sinner, this penitent, something lacking that was essential.
So suddenly, the penitent hears, from the other side of the confessional grilles, a man, a priest who sobs and weeps.
Then he stops.
He says to the Curé, Mr. Curé, is everything okay? Do you want me to call a doctor?
I weep, replies the Curé, I weep for those whom you do not weep for.
I weep for those whom you do not weep for.
Yes, this man had confessed his sins, but it was cold, dry, without soul.
So the Curé weeps.
He understands what sin is because he meditates day and night on the passion of Jesus Christ.
And he weeps in the place of the one who should weep and does not weep.
It was a radical change in this soul.
He wept.
He said his act of contrition.
My God, I have a very great regret for having offended you.
A very great regret.
It was not a formula; it was a reality.
A reality.
I have a very great regret for having offended you, O my God.
Of course, our Lord Jesus Christ wept again.
In agony, he weeps for our sins.
And it will not only be tears of sweat, of water, but it will be a sweat of blood.
No one among us knows this.
A sweat of blood.
And Dr. Barbet, the passion according to the surgeon, Dr. Philippe Barbet,
who recounts the passion through the eyes of the doctor, the surgeon,
says that this pain of our Lord Jesus Christ's suffering in agony is a principle of making a man die.
So painful is it.
Our Lord Jesus Christ did not die at that moment
because he wants to show us even more love on the cross.
Or certainly, he will weep for our sins.
Not his sins, excuse me, our sins.
But he made himself sin, as Saint Paul says.
That is why I made that slip.
I did not mean to.
He weeps for our sins.
He weeps for our sins.
But Saint Paul says, he made himself sin.
We cannot understand this.
He made himself sin for us.
To take away our sins.
We could never have imagined such a word.
It must be that Saint Paul is inspired to say this.
He made himself sin for us.
Because he is God.
And God does not sin.
God cannot sin.
But he made himself sin for us.
And he weeps for our sins.
In our place.
To incite in our souls a contrition.
A beginning of contrition.
How important it is.
The life of Christ, my dear brothers,
is our road,
our way.
Ego sum, via, veritas et vita.
I am the life, the way, the path.
These tears are also teachings.
My dear brothers,
God is gracious here below to visit us frequently.
Frequently.
Let us try to take account of the visits of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So many countless graces since our birth.
Baptism, confessions, communions, received sacraments, confirmation, marriage, for priests, ordination, etc.
And so many actual graces, nudges that God pours into our souls every day, at every moment.
And we do not notice it.
The sacraments, the trials, are graces from God.
If we look a little deeper into things, the joys too.
My dear brothers,
the tears of Christ are calls to the conversion of the heart.
Intimate conversion of our souls.
We must go to heaven.
We know that.
And to get there, we take the means.
We take the means.
We do not say, oh, life this morning, he spoke a little loudly.
That shook us.
That is not enough.
Shaken means the outside.
It is our feelings.
But the life of the Christian does not consist of having feelings or emotions,
but of fundamental dispositions to be Christian.
To uproot sin and live according to the joy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And who proves that joy, the joy of being a servant of our Lord Jesus Christ,
we are made so low to serve our Lord Jesus Christ.
And well, may these tears help us to serve better, or finally, our Lord Jesus Christ, here below.
God gives us a certain time.
It is a mercy of God, the time we have.
Be careful not to waste this time.
It is counted.
And moreover, we do not know the end of this time.
He knows it, but we do not.
He has told us in the Gospel several times.
"I will come to you like a thief."
And all those who have been in one way or another, or really,
well, burglarized at home,
know that the thief does not post his business card saying,
"I will pass this night at midnight, while you are not there."
And no, he does not do that.
Otherwise, we would arrive.
We would put seals.
We would be there with what is needed to outsmart the thief.
So he comes when we do not expect it.
And Jesus Christ will do it like that.
So this time given to us now
is a time of mercy
to remind us that God is good.
He is true, he is sweet, he is strong.
But let us not forget also that Jesus,
our Lord Jesus Christ, who is God, is just as well.
At the end of life, when we die,
mercy is over, all that.
Justice takes place,
which is infinite, which is equitable,
as much as his mercy,
because his mercy and his justice are, like God, infinite,
limitless, equally true to each other, not one to the detriment of the other.
Mercy and justice are equal.
But here below, it is essentially
the mercy of God
that manifests itself.
That manifests itself.
Let us ask God, dear brothers, to be faithful to him.
And if we have not been until now,
well, now is the time
to come or return to him
through the sacraments,
through a holy confession,
through a holy communion,
where God calls us,
so that we may, in turn,
and finally, definitively,
dry his tears
through a good Christian life.
Let us ask the Virgin Mary to show us the way.
She is the way that leads to God.
And in this life,
as the original Salve says well,
"Inak lak y marum valley."
We are in this valley of tears where we weep for our sins.
We weep for our sins.
Let us ask Saint Mary Magdalene for this grace to weep for our sins,
which are the cause
of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And the cause of his resurrection
and ours too, is our holy life,
hidden, as Saint Paul says,
hidden in His heart,
in His sacred heart, so be it.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so be it.

Excellent sermon. Thank you