(Part one of three)  What I am trying to say is that the pain then is part of the happiness now.—Wife Joy to C.S. Lewis contemplating her death as reported by Amy Morris-Young and as I prepare for a funeral for the wife of the man who shares the pew in the back of the church at Daily Mass . . . and the passing of my sister, who is visiting at the end of this week, probably for the last time.

At the Ninth Station of the Cross, Jesus meets the Weeping Women of Jerusalem and admonishes them to weep for themselves and their sins, rather than Jesus.  What might have been their sin?  To shout at God fo permitting the torture and death of Jesus?  For the time being, at least, that is what makes sense to me.