A Graceful Moment in Lenten Journey

This week we journey with Jesus to Mount Olive as he approaches Jerusalem. At the sight of Jerusalem Jesus has an emotional moment: “Oh, Jerusalem!” he says. Matthew tells us that at the sight of the city and its history and present experience of suffering that “Jesus wept.” Luke tells us that Jesus looked upon the city with a mother’s heart: “How I would gather you like a mother hen gathers her chicks.” Our sermon will center on the compassion of Jesus, who today looks on the city of Kyiv and Park Ridge (where each of us bear our burdens as well as joys) and sees the suffering and enters it.