This is Vilex number 140 Lament over Jerusalem. We are in Matthew chapter 23, verses 37 to 39.

Vialex stands for Videolexia devena, your patristic Bible study and Ignatian prayer series online.

God give you his peace and nominipatri, Sifidi, at Spiti Tzu-Santi, amen.

God, our Lord, we ask the grace that all of our intentions, actions, and operations

be directed purely to the service and praise of your divine majesty.

And nomi Pachi, Sifidi, and Sidi Tusi Tusi, amen.

Our Lord says, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it,

how often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings?

And you were not willing.

See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you,

you will not see me again until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Thus are the words of the Holy Gospel. So it's 2023, if you're listening to this in real time. And as you know, there is a lot of

debate on if Catholics should support Israel in all of the heat of the Middle East right now.

Now, I will admit as we talk about who we will call the tribe, we have to watch the algorithms

on YouTube. I think you know what I mean by the tribe.

They comprise the most powerful elite in the world, Rockefeller's Rothschilds, the people pulling

the switches behind the scenes. But this tribe is also the bloodline that Jesus came from. So we want to be

respectful. So if you look at today's gospel,

Jesus is weeping specifically over his own tribe out of love because he wanted to save them,

and they are rejecting him, much like how they rejected all the prophets of the Old Testament,

even as He, Jesus, who is God, sent them. So you just have to think on how they

treated, say, Isaiah or Jeremiah. Now, of course, after Jesus' death and resurrection, St. Paul

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