God Brings Communion Among His People!

 

5th Week of Lent Saturday

Ezek 37:21-28

Meditation

God Brings Communion Among His People!

God’s love and passion for Israel are great and admirable. The people of Israel are always scattered people. For one reason or the other, they have experienced migration, slavery, deportation and persecution. The group of people who can be said to have suffered most. The Lord has not abandoned them. God has not lost hope for them, though they have lost hope in themselves. He instilled in them hope and promised to save them as people and as a nation and redeem them for eternity.

God keeps his promise; he becomes their God, and the people become his people. His dwelling is fixed in Jerusalem. He made a covenant with them to protect them and guard them from all forces of evil. The people of Israel are not abandoned even to this day. The coming of Jesus, a saviour and redeemer, is given to the whole world, uniting them all as one people of God. The salvific action of God continues through the ministry of the Church. God keeps His word of uniting humanity as a sign of His prosperity.

Do we believe God will unify the chosen people?

Gospel: Jn 11:45-56

Meditation

 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, "What are we  to do? This man is performing many signs.  If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation."  But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!  You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed." He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,  and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God.  So from that day on they planned to put him to death. Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples. Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?" Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him  (Jn 11:45-57).

We always chose the lesser evil. Caiaphas said it better that one man dies than to put the whole nation to death. A wisdom but God permitted that Jesus should die not only to calm the problem of that time; but to end once and for all the destiny of humans to eternal fire. The death of Jesus is a happy mistake which did immense good. Let us meditate on the death of Jesus and what follows after his death.

Are we sufficiently aware of the results of the death of Jesus?

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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