4.11.14

               
Lectio: Jn 11.45-56                                                    
                                                                                                                                                            
Meditatio: "But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest for that year, said to them, ‘You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish’.” Jn 49-50

Oratio: "O God, how are easy it is for us to sacrifice others so that we do not have to put up with hardships.

I remember, despite Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, the rulers of the people were more concerned that the people would believe in Him and the Romans would then come and take away their land. So despite the overwhelming evidence that Jesus was from God and proved His claim to be God by the many miracles He worked, they turned Jesus over to the Authorities on false charges so their hides could be saved - how cowardice! How tragic for them! How sad! May I always have the courage to do what is right regardless of the personal consequences.

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: “one die..instead..people...nation not perish”: the High Priest persuaded the governing body to do a heinous crime with the rationale that the end justifies the means - how terrible the results. In prayer seek the grace to make right moral decisions and never make them  based on the ends justifying the means for morality based on objective good of the end and of the means is what the Lord wants of us.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 27.11-54.