Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 4:43–54
March 28, 2022 | Monday

Today’s Gospel

When the two days were over, Jesus left for Galilee. Jesus himself said that no prophet is recognized in his own country. Yet the Galileans welcomed him when he arrived, because of all the things which he had done in Jerusalem during the Festival, and which they had seen. For they, too, had gone to the feast.

Jesus went back to Cana of Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. At Capernaum there was an official, whose son was ill, and when he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked him to come and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus said, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe!” The official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” And Jesus replied, “Go, your son lives!”

The man had faith in the word that Jesus spoke to him, and went his way. As he was approaching his house, his servants met him, and gave him the good news, “Your son has recovered!” So he asked them at what hour the child began to recover, and they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday, at about one o’clock in the afternoon.” And the father realized that that was the time when Jesus had told him, “Your son lives!” And he became a believer, he and all his family.

Jesus performed this second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.

Today’s Reflection:

Today’s Gospel is a sign that Christ is the life-giving Word. It also affirms a part of what St. Paul said in Romans 8:39 that no distance can separate us from the love of God in Christ our Lord. No distance can obstruct us from having any access to God due to his easy accessibility through prayer. But instead of merely sitting and praying in His house, the official used His resources to investigate Jesus’ whereabouts, then hastily traversed a physical distance of approximately 16.47 miles (either by foot or by beast) to immediately reach Jesus from Capernaum to Cana, Galilee. That is a deeper kind of prayer because it is accompanied by intense faith, gamble and efforts. Truly, God is closer to each of us than any analogy can describe. But can our hearts and efforts prove the same? /Vulnerasti, 2022