June 27 - Saturday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Lam.2:2,10-14,18-19; Ps.74:1-7,19-21; Mt.8:5-17) "It was our infirmities He bore, our sufferings He endured." And oh how deep are those sufferings; "great as the sea is [our] downfall." And graphically are they seen in the destruction of Jerusalem; sharply they pierce the flesh of the Son. Yes, the Lord "has torn down in His anger the fortresses of daughter Judah… On the ground in silence sit the old men of daughter Zion; they strew dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground." And the children and infants "faint away like…
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