{"id":11852,"date":"2023-04-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2023-09-20T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:37:30","slug":"and-the-mother-did-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/and-the-mother-did-weep","title":{"rendered":"And the Mother did Weep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>It is Good Friday today. Jesus may have existed. He may have died on the cross exactly 1990 years ago. His mother may have wept.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She may have wept as if weeping would be there for always.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know whether He existed or whether He died on the cross. I don\u2019t think so, but I don\u2019t see that as crucially important. Reality didn\u2019t happen in year zero on ground zero. Nor did it happen merely in imagination \u2015 nevertheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The feeling is one of an immense weeping.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the Son of God who gives His life. The feat is incomparable. It is the rawest thing, and we should all be grateful \u2014 as if it was our own child, our closest kin, only Heavenly, whatever this may mean. In \u2018It doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 lies much of the profound greatness of exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, it did happen. It just doesn\u2019t matter what exactly, in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It did happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also the weeping did happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if it was the combined weeping of all mothers who have ever lost a child. It was not just the one. She wept for all \u2014 while He died for every soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she had given herself unconditionally 33 years before, again, she was giving her mother\u2019s heart \u2013 her son, her baby \u2013 to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s terrible, and it\u2019s not just terrible. It\u2019s more. One may try to comprehend this, and one cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So we have different religions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please stop the nonsense and the fighting for nonsense. You might as well start weeping over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s weep together then, today, feeling the power of Her sorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop that nonsense of religious righteousness of any kind, for Her sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[About &#8216;And the Mother did Weep&#8217;: This is a classical piece by Karl Jenkins from his album &#8216;Stabat Mater.&#8217; This music is incredibly beautiful and inspiring, especially these days. 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Jesus may have existed. He may have died on the cross exactly 1990 years ago. His mother may have wept. She may have wept as if weeping would be there for always. Damned. I don\u2019t know whether He existed or whether He died on the cross. 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