Sometimes it happens this way: you’re at Mass, everything feels ordinary, the silence deepens—and suddenly your eyes begin to fill with tears. It isn’t a dramatic sob. It may be just a quiet moisture, or an unexpected emotion rising from your chest as you stand before the altar. Almost immediately, questions appear: “What’s happening to me?” “Why am I reacting like this?” “Am I being too emotional?”
Yet not all tears come from fatigue or a specific worry. Some tears emerge when t
