Thursday, July 11, 2024

Reflection -- 10 July 2024 "Cover Us" and "Fall Upon Us"

 Today's ( 10 July 24 ) 1st reading Reading from Mass includes:


The king of Samaria shall disappear,

like foam upon the waters.

The high places of Aven shall be destroyed,

the sin of Israel;

thorns and thistles shall overgrow their altars.

Then they shall cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!”

and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”


In the 8th Station of the Way of the Cross, Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, St Luke's Gospel (Luke 23:27 ) presents:


A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.  Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children, for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’

At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?”


St. Irenaeus, who died around the year 200 AD, tells us that scripture is recapitulated in Christ.  We can see that occurring for this passage from the book of the prophet Hosea in The 8th Station of the Cross.




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