“How many times have I wanted to bring them together… and they have rejected me.”

The end of today’s Gospel is a heartbreaking lament of Jesus thinking of Jerusalem, the “holy” city to which the Jews joyfully marched each year. Jesus is already about to enter it, He knows that it is the end of his journey and his life, and that He will be just another prophet, in reality the true prophet who will come to offer them salvation and will be rejected. Is this not a lament that must move us today as never before, in a society that has silenced the conscience and has become deaf to the voice of God, insensitive to the voices that can offer salvation through paths of justice, peace and love? That Jesus who gave his life in Jerusalem, rose again, is alive and never tires of continuing to offer ways of life and salvation. We who have known him and believe in his message are called today, as witnesses, to proclaim this Good News to the world today. Let us be moved by his lament before this world that is deviating from the path of life!