Todays Gospel Reading & Reflection: Friday, April 4, 2014 Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22 (1st Reading) Psalm: 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 & 23 (R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.) Gospel: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 (THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES) Jesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? But we know where he is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.” So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. REFLECTION: NOT OPENLY BUT AS IT WERE IN SECRET. The storm of hostility against Jesus is brewing. He is fully aware of it. He exercises prudence by moving around discreetly, not because he is afraid of his enemies but because he does not want to provoke them into violence either. It is interesting to note that in spite of the unfriendly and even dangerous situation, Jesus continues to do what he ought to do and goes up to Jerusalem to perform his religious obligation as a pious Jew. No wonder that when his hours comes, he will proceed again to Jerusalem even as he knows that a storm is about to unleash its fury on him. Jesus goes up to Jerusalem not to die but to be ready to die. He goes there to make, as it were, his last call, his last appeal for conversion to his fellow Jews. For this, he is ready to die if need be. Nothing can stop him from doing the Fathers will. Everyone has a plan, until he gets hit (Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic, mixed martial arts champion). How do you deal with difficulties and trials in life? Do you consider them obstacles or stepping stones? - 365 days w/ the Lord (Liturgical Biblical Diary 2014) Good morning!
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:30:43 +0000
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