October 28, 2020 It’s true that God will sometimes help us to
avoid the experience of evil in our lives – that is, He
Eucharistic Celebration
Luke 6:12-16; Jesus chose ordinary
people among the crowd, a group of
fishermen, to preach the gospel to
the whole world.
REFLECTION:
In the Gospel, Jesus has been preaching the
kingdom of God and healing all over Judea, and
the truth he preaches is powerful and
attractive. By now, many followers, that is,
disciples, cling to Him. A disciple is someone who
is a student, or follower of a teacher, or
master. However, what differentiates
discipleship form an ordinary student is that a
disciple follows so completely that he re-orients
his life to the doctrines of his master. One of our
most common prayers could be “Lord, grant me
the grace to desire to be your true disciple.”
gives us divine protection – there are times when
he will instead give us the grace to be sanctified by
the evil that befalls us. That is, bad experiences
and evil in our lives cannot always be avoided. But
in the great love that God has for us, He will use the
bad things, the evil, as an instrument of grace.
It’s my personal belief that Jesus and the Father
did have an exchange of ideas or wishes regarding
Judas Iscariot. Moreover I believe that exchange
was oriented toward the love of Judas and the
good of mankind. In my humble opinion, their
exchange was not centered on anything that would
lessen the trials Jesus would endure.
We would do well if our response to
this pericope is to ask the Father for a better
understanding of prayer. We can do this by
prayerfully reflecting on the night that Jesus spent
praying to His Father.