Tears And Healing

Si ad unius viduae lacrymas temporales sic motus est Christus, ut occurreret in via, ut ex oculis stillantia dolorum fluenta restingueret, ut recuteret mortem, reduceret hominem, ut resuscitaret corpus, vitam reduceret, planctum verteret in gaudium, et exsequias lugubres in festivitatem natalitiam commutaret, et feretro datum matri vivum redderet ex morte; quid modo faciet quando inardescet viribus suis ad Ecclesiae suae lacrymas diuturnas, ad sponsae suae sanguineos sudores? Nam per supplicantem Ecclesiam lacrymas fundit juges, per martyres sacrum sanguinem sudat, donec unicum suum, hoc est populum Christianum, quem tot ad mortem ferunt tempora, occurrens Christus de mortali feretro perpetuae vitae reddat in supernae matris gaudium sempiternum. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo CIII, De Filio Viduae Excitato a Mortuis, deque Corporum Resurrectione Source: Migne PL 52 col 489a-b

If Christ was so moved by the tears one widow shed at a certain time that He came to meet her on the road, 1 that He dried the streams of grief flowing from her eyes, that He beat back death, that He brought back a man, that He revived a body, that He restored life, that he turned mourning into joy, and that he transformed funereal grief into a celebration of birth and He returned living from the dead one given to the bier to a mother; what will He do now when will he is inflamed for men at constant tears of his Church, at the blood and sweat of his Bride? For by supplication the Church pours forth continual tears and through her martyrs she sweats sacred blood, until her only one, that is the Christian people, whom the many ages bear off to death, with Christ's coming, is taken from the mortal bier to everlasting life amid the eternal joy of this heavenly mother. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 103, On The Son of the Widow Raised from the Dead and the Resurrection of the Body 1 Lk 7.11-17