Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 11: 19-27 (or Lk 10: 38-42)
July 29, 2022 |Friday

Today’s Gospel

Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary, after the death of their brother, to comfort them. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, while Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “If you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” Jesus said, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha replied, “I know that he will rise in the resurrection, at the last day.” But Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection. Whoever believes in me, though he die, shall live. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” Martha then answered, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world.”

Today’s Reflection:

The flesh of our faith is Hope which refers to the resurrection. Through this hope in our faith, it gives us an assurance and consolation of eternal life after our earthly life. Thus, the reality of death becomes the door of the life promised to us by Jesus as He promised to Martha that those who believe in Him will have eternal life. Thus, the death of Lazarus becomes the venue to reveal the mystery of the resurrection or life eternal wherein the resuscitation of Lazarus prefigures His own resurrection. Our faith in Jesus is not in vain because He did not remain in death but eventually resurrected so that just as we share in His passion and death so we also share His glorious resurrection. /Vulnerasti, 2022