I am sorry to say that there have been too many times when I have failed to recognize the divine in another person until after it is too late. Sometimes I am blinded by over-attention to my own concerns, sometimes by pre-judging the other person, sometimes by distraction, sometimes by fear. That is the part of me that has compassion for those who failed to see the Christ in Jesus, as in today’s Gospel. But I do not despair because I know that today, maybe in this very hour, I will have another opportunity to see Jesus right in front of me.
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Wisdom 2:1a,12-22
Psalm 34:17-23
John 7:1-2,10,25-30
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. Now the Jewish festival of Booths was near.
But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also went, not publicly but as it were in secret.
Now some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Is not this the man whom they are trying to kill? And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? Yet we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.’ Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, ‘You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.’ Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.
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