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Jesus tells the women to weep not for him but for themselves and for their children
Pablo Picaso's "The Weeping Woman" |
Throughout
the ages, it has been the women who bear so much of the suffering inflicted by
Empire. When Jesus spoke to the women in Jerusalem on his way to the cross, he
saw their weeping and knew the greater sorrow that they would endure in the
years ahead when their children would grow up just to become fodder for the war
machine of Empire. Picaso painted “The Weeping Woman” in 1937 during the
Spanish Civil War. He painted “Guernica” that same year to depict the tragedy
and suffering brought on by the casual bombing of Spain by the Nazi war machine.
While "Guernica" has come to be a reminder of the tragedy of war, "The Weeping
Woman" is a universal image of suffering.
When
you go out today, take note of the women you see. Many of them will be silently
bearing the sorrow of having lost someone dear to them at the hands of Empire
and its war machine. They bear the suffering brought on by lost lives, cripples
bodies and shattered minds of their children who grew up to serve their country
and were crushed by Empire.
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