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The Gospel according to St. Luke, 29:41-47
“At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, seeing the city, He wept over it, saying: If thou also hadst known, 
and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. For the day shall come upon thee, and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and straiten thee on every side, and beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee; and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. “And entering into the temple, He began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought, saying to them: It is written, My house is the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. And He was teaching daily in the temple.”
Summary of Tomorrow’s Meditation
We will meditate tomorrow upon the gospel of the day, and we shall learn from it, from Our Lord weeping over Jerusalem, to have a spirit of compassion: First, for our own miseries; Second, for the miseries of others. We will make the resolution: First, to consider our own spiritual miseries without feeling any bitter self-love, or desolation, but with humility and a strong resolution to live a better life; Second, to pity the trials of the Church at least by our prayers, if we cannot do more, the unhappiness of sinners by exercising zeal to bring them back, the misery of the poor by our alms, and the sorrow of the afflicted by the consolations we may be able to give them. Our spiritual nosegay shall be the words of the gospel: “When He drew near the city, He wept over it.” (Luke 19:41)
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