4,04,14

Lectio:  Jn  7.40-53     
                                                                                                                                                                                       
Meditatio: "Nicodemus, one of their members who had come to him  [Jesus] earlier, said to them, ‘Does our law condemn a person before it first hears him and finds out what he is doing’?” Jn 7. 50-51

Oratio: "O God, what injustices we create when we rush to judgment!

I remember that Jesus was condemned by the religious elite before hearing from Him - to the their detriment and to the detriment of the people whom they were called to serve! It would lead to the crucifixion of their long awaited Messiah. How awful? How terrible? How tragic!
How devastating for all the people!

I  ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
                                               
Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what.
God is saying to you

Operatio: “condemn...before hearing....?”  We know instinctively we should not judge without knowing the facts. Hearing the accused is certainly one very important way of coming to know. Nothing can be offered as an excuse for the religious elite failing to do so and even more so since one of the own members reminded them of the importance of a hearing under the law! In prayer seek the grace to refrain from judging for judging is the Lord’s; and if necessity requires you to judge,  do so in a prudent way and give the one being judged the opportunity to present his or her side of the story.

Tomorrow's reading: Jn 11.1-45