Be a Blessing!

 

3rd Week of Easter Tuesday

Acts 7:51-8:1

Meditation

Be a Blessing!

Stephen was stoned to death. The story repeats time and again; the people persecute those who come in the name of God. It was the story in the Old Testament and is also a fact in the New Testament. St Stephen was the very first one to shed blood for Christ after the resurrection of Jesus.

While he was being stoned, he prayed for his persecutors. He prayed not to hold their sin and to forgive them. It was like the prayer of Jesus on the cross; ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do'. It is a noble and great act to pray for one’s persecutors. Knowingly and unknowingly, we keep on hurting each other. On a day when many people hurt us, it is good to pray for the persecutors instead of cursing them, to say a prayer of mercy and forgiveness.

Do we curse or bless our offenders?

Gospel: Jn 6:30-35 

The people asked Jesus for a sign. God gives signs he gives lasting signs. Jesus gave bread as an eternal sign of his body as eternal food for our body and spirit. Moses gave them physical food in the desert for the people of Israel. Jesus says even the food in the desert in the time of Moses was given by God not by Moses.

Jesus promises them food for the soul. The food he promised was his own body and blood. Jesus says, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” The Eucharist is the eternal and lasting food he has given us. We have the real presence of Jesus in the sacrament of the Eucharist.

Do we meet Jesus in the Eucharist?

St Dominic Savio

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