Friday, April 06, 2018
Octave of Easter, Friday
1st Reading: Acts 4:1-12
Gospel: John 21:1-14
(…) When day had already broken, Jesus was standing on the shore, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus called them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered, “Nothing.” Then he said to them, “Throw the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they had lowered the net, they were not able to pull it in because of the great number of fish.
Then the disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” At these words, “It’s the Lord,” Simon Peter put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and jumped into the water. The other disciples came in the boat dragging the net full of fish they were not far from land, about a hun dred meters.
When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught.” So Simon Peter climbed into the boat and pulled the net to shore.
It was full of big fish—one hundred and fifty-three—but, in spite of this, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” and not one of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” for they knew it was the Lord.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
While lining up for communion at a Holy Mass presided over by a Redemptorist priest, I was amused to hear the him saying, “Come and have breakfast with the Lord” instead of the traditional “The Body of Christ”. He was a foreigner and was already too old to recognize that I too was a priest. When it was my turn he said again, “Come and have breakfast with the Lord”. With a naughty smile I answered with, “Away with me Lord, for I am a sinner”. The priest muttered: “Why did you line up here in the first place!”
This experience plunged me into deeper reflection of the message of today’s Gospel. When the Lord invited the disciples for breakfast, he only had the fire prepared with a fish on it; the disciples were to supply more from their catch. In the Eucharist, something similar happens. The Lord invites us to a banquet where we bring in the fruits of the work of our hands represented by the bread and the wine.
When the Redemptorist priest asked me why I lined up for communion in the first place, it sounded like he was asking me what I brought in to make that breakfast with the Lord possible. I was made aware that we should contribute something to the Mass. The least we can do is to bring in the sufferings of the week as our humble contribution to Jesus’ sacrificial offering made present at the Eucharistic table. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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