Moved by compassion, these devoted women weep over our suffering Savior. But He turns to them and says: "Weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves and your children. Weep for your sins and those of your children; for they are the cause of My suffering." You also must weep over your sins, for there is nothing more pleasing to our Lord and more useful to yourself than the tears you shed out of contrition for your sins.

O Jesus,  who shall give my eyes a torrent of tears,  that I may day and night weep over my sins?  I beseech Thee by Thy bitter and bloody tears  to move my heart,  so that tears may flow in abundance from my eyes,  and that I may weep over Thy sufferings  and over my sins until death.