Reflection for TUESDAY, 2nd Week of Easter.

By

Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar

Today's Gospel Passage 

John 3:7-15  

No-one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man who has come down from heaven

Jesus said to Nicodemus:

‘Do not be surprised when I say:

You must be born from above.

The wind blows wherever it pleases;

you hear its sound,

but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.

That is how it is with all who are born of the Spirit.’

‘How can that be possible?’ asked Nicodemus. ‘You, a teacher in Israel, and you do not know these things!’ replied Jesus.

‘I tell you most solemnly,

we speak only about what we know

and witness only to what we have seen

and yet you people reject our evidence.

If you do not believe me when I speak about things in this world,

how are you going to believe me when I speak to you about heavenly things?

No one has gone up to heaven

except the one who came down from heaven,

the Son of Man who is in heaven;

and the Son of Man must be lifted up

as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.’


Reflection on the Readings


To be able to give up something, it must be for a higher and a noble cause.  

We certainly would like to have our own possessions and our personal belongings.

Also, we have this innate feeling of insecurity and we can’t deny that having wealth and possessions will make us feel a bit more secure.

For the whole group of believers of the early Church, they were united heart and soul, and no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned was held in common.

That certainly sounds amazing, and furthermore, none of them was ever in want, even though they have all they possessed to the community.

That was only possible because there was one uniting factor, and that is their faith in the Risen Lord.

The Risen Lord not only provided for their needs, He also sent them the Holy Spirit.

It was the Holy Spirit that moved the disciples of the early Church to give up what was temporal for what is eternal.

May the Holy Spirit also move us to come out of our fears and to have our hope and security in the Risen Lord.

GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.