Daily Retreat 04/07/06

2006 Apr 7 Fri: Lenten Weekday/ John Baptist de la Salle, p, rf.

Jer 20: 10-13/ Ps 17(18): 2-3a. 3bc-4. 5-6. 7/ Jn 10: 31-42

From today’s readings: "All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine.... In my distress I called upon the Lord, and He heard my voice.... If I do not perform My Father’s works, do not believe Me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in Me and I am in the Father."

A Week Heart

One week to go before Good Friday – certainly, for the enemies of Jesus, that was a time of plotting against Him, being "on the watch for any misstep." What about for Jesus Himself? As He drew near Jerusalem, fully aware of the suffering and death He was facing, the words of Jeremiah in the first reading must have resonated within His Sacred Heart, along with the psalm and all the other scripture passages which were about to come to fulfillment.

And what about us at this time? Are our own hearts more in line with those of Christ’s enemies, or, set aflame with the Word of God, are they pulsing with love of Christ’s own Sacred Blood? Or, are they merely indifferent, inexcusably catatonic in tragic disregard of the greatest act of love that the world ever has or ever will see?