Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 “The Feast of Tabernacles“
April 5, 2019 | Friday

Today’s Gospel

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area,
and all the people started coming to him,
and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman
who had been caught in adultery
and made her stand in the middle.
They said to him,
“Teacher, this woman was caught
in the very act of committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.
So what do you say?”
They said this to test him,
so that they could have some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him,
he straightened up and said to them,
“Let the one among you who is without sin
be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went away one by one,
beginning with the elders.
So he was left alone with the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up and said to her,
“Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?”
She replied, “No one, sir.”
Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

Today’s Reflection

We always have the temptation of being inimical to the truth simply because the truth that is being presented to us is not the truth that we know or because it goes against what we have long believed to be true. But truth is truth no matter how inconvenient it may be. Whether we like it or not, truth stands objectively, independent of what we want or wish it to be. The Jews did not want to accept the truth that Jesus offers because that is not what they believe to be true. But the proper attitude towards it is no other than the humility of accepting it as it unravels before us.