Friday, April 27, 2018
4th Week of Easter
1st Reading:
Acts 13:26-33
Gospel: John 14:1-6
Jesus said to his disciples, “Do not be troubled; trust in God and trust in me. In my Father’s house there are many rooms. Otherwise I would not have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to me, so that where I am, you also may be. Yet you know the way where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Before Jesus came into the world, humanity did not know of any way leading to the Father after sin severed its relationship with God. Getting to the Father was as impossible as getting close to the sun without getting charred. With Jesus, humanity found the sure way to the Father. Nonetheless, getting to the Father is not a walk in the park because there are stringent requirements of self denial, taking up one’s cross and discipleship. Let’s reflect on the requirement of self denial.
If there is any time of the year that we should work hard in the exercise of self denial, it is election time. Let’s forget about what a political candidate can do to us personally. Let us choose the candidate on the basis of what he can do to the country as a whole. Even if surveys were reliable, would it be sensible to abandon the candidate we believe in for the flimsy reason that he is not making good in the surveys? The more he lags behind in the surveys, the more we should stand by him. Should he eventually lose, at least we have done our sacred duty of voting for the lesser evil.
If we do not work hard in the exercise of self denial during the elections but feast instead on the meager amount candidates pay for our votes, let’s be ready to suffer for the next six years. How funny to note that those who have accepted money from vote buyers are the first to fill up the streets rallying against the corrupt officials. If on the one hand they are on the streets on their own, they should first explain why they sold their votes in the first place.
If on the other hand they are on the streets because organizers have paid them, then that’s real bad news for our country. It means that corruption has blown beyond manageable proportion to the point that we cannot determine anymore if the seedbed of corruption is the electorate or those running for government offices.
On the point of the requirement of self-denial alone we aren’t sure if we can get close to the Father through Jesus.– (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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