Today, aside from being the Solemnity of our holy patron S. Joseph as Workman, is also the memorial day of the prophet Jeremias. Here is his entry from the martyrology:
"Commemoration of Saint Jeremias the prophet, who, in the time of the kings Joachim and Sedecias [aka. Zedekiah] of Juda, while warning about the approaching destruction of the Holy City and the deportation of her people, suffered many persecutions, on account of which Holy Church holds him up as a prefigurement of the patient Christ. [Jeremiah] predicted the new and eternal testament consummated by the same Jesus Christ, by which the all-powerful Father wrote His Law upon the inmost heart of the children of Israel, that He would be Himself to them God and they to Him a people."
Roman martyrology, May the first
That wonderful summary reveals to us a devastated man, who knew what would happen to his nation and people, but try as he might he could not get them to change their ways. Here is a link to an earlier post on the prophecy of Jeremias, and another on the Lamentations of Jeremias.
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