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Lenten Season · Second Sunday in Lent · Year C

Luke 13:31-35 or Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

That Fox Herod and the Hen Who Longs to Gather Jerusalem

Flevit super illam (He Wept Over It), Enrique Simonet
Flevit super illam (He Wept Over It), Enrique Simonet, 1892Museo del Prado, Madrid · public domain

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"Jerusalem, Jerusalem... how often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!" (Luke 13:34)

Warned that Herod wants him dead, Jesus refuses to be deterred and presses on toward Jerusalem, the city where prophets are killed. He closes with a lament over the city's resistance to God's persistent, maternal love, a note of grief that colors the whole season of Lent.

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