In his wounds we find healing

(To the Sources)

‘…Jesus was troubled in spirit…’ (John 11:21)

From John 13:21-38 (Year A: Holy Week/Tuesday)

To share in the life of any community is to be open to others – their plans, their hopes, their expectations, their values, their needs, their wants, their goodness..their malice. Facing betrayal was a hard trial for Jesus. He had lived and suffered and rejoiced with this band of friends for a number of years. The mystery of evil in our very midst is a hard cross. It leaves us speechless at times. Dumbfounded we can only set our faces like flint as in the Suffering Servant of Isaiah (50:7). Sometimes our greatest challenges come not from those unlike us or estranged from us but those who share are table, our offices, our homes, our churches… Let us take up this cross every day and follow in the steps of the One who went this way before us. In his wounds we find healing.