The Importance of Tears in Catholic Life

The Italian disposition has you tend to associate the Italians with joy and festivity, don't you? I guess for good reason. And they cry easily too. Which is set of with celebrating the mass. So yeah, he's he's real Italian. Why do you think it is it seems like they had more respect for tears back then than we do now? Even in Catholic circles today, if I was to see a priest crying all the time, I'd be like, "For goodness sake, pull it together"