The women were there for Jesus during his Passion and death and the first to receive the good news of the Resurrection. They were his faithful disciples. Unlike Peter who denied him three times, the women accompanied Jesus through the horror of his sufferings.
In Luke's Gospel, on the way to Calvary, Jesus stops and speaks to the women. "Daughters of Jerusalem! Do not weep for me. Weep rather for yourselves and for your children! The time is coming when it will be said: "Blessed are the childless, the wombs that have never given birth and the breasts that have never nursed." Then people will say to the mountains, "Fall on us and to the hills, "Cover us up!" For if they do these things in the green wood, what will happen in the dry?"
What is Jesus saying to the faithful disciples, many of whom, are women in a church and world that treats them as second class citizens? What is Jesus saying today to all those who oppress or marginalize their sisters and brothers? What is Jesus saying to women today?
Bridget Mary Meehan, arcwp
www.arcwp.org
sofiabmm@aol.com
No comments:
Post a Comment