TODAY'S WORD

By


Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore

Acts: 4:8,11 "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,.... This Jesus is ‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone."

TODAY'S REFLECTION

In the 1st reading, we see the disciples coming to a conviction about Jesus and His Resurrection and proclaiming Him in the presence of the rulers, elders and the scribes.

In this morning’s gospel reading we find the disciples returning to their occupation as fishermen. 

Jesus had called them away from their profession some years earlier. 

He had called them to follow him and to share in his work of drawing people into God’s kingdom. 


However, now that Jesus had been crucified, there was nothing to do but go back to what they knew best. 


They were returning to their past. However, a little bit like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus who were heading in the wrong direction, these disciples were facing in the wrong direction; they were heading back to where they had been. 


The risen Lord now stood on the shore of the Sea of Galilee to redirect them, to renew the call he had made to them by the Sea of Galilee some years earlier. 


He first established communion with them, the communion they had broken by abandoning him in the hour of his passion and death. 


He did so by the simple invitation, ‘Come and have breakfast’. 


We are often tempted to go back to where we have been, even if it is only in our memories. 


Yet, the Lord is always calling us forward. 


Even when we have failed him in various ways, he continues to call us to begin afresh, and to cast our net in a different direction. 


Our relationship with the Lord always has a future that is full of hope. 


RESOLUTION

Let's resolve during this easter season when we are invited to recognize the Lord on the shore of our lives calling out to us to follow where he is leading us.

May we reflect and meditate on the Resurrection of Jesus and who He is for us and may we come to a conviction about Jesus and be empowered to be His witnesses.


 GOD BLESS YOU 

Good morning. Have a nice safe day