Scripture is not precisely clear
as to exactly WHEN in Heaven, God will wipe away every tear.
Evidently even now, there are relatively few tears. However, a number of narratives mention occasional tears.
This is the first narrative I’ve read wherein Mary was seen crying. Usually Christ or the angel accompanying the visitor notes that Mary is not filling ANY of the purported Heavenly roles concocted by the Vatican.
Occasionally, Mary will exhort the visitor to tell earthly folks to stop such nonsense as praying to her; asking favors of her etc.
And some such visitors reporting such narratives have been life long RC’s awash in such practices. I don’t have an example handy.
Did you ever do any Hebrew? A language with two tenses and both of 'em can mean past present or future. It's enough to make grown men weep.
Time, sequences, that sort of stuff, doesn't do really well in thinking about heaven.
But here on earth it's time for me to go to bed.