“RISEN WITH CHRIST”
Easter Reflections
Saturday, 3rd June 2017.
Seventh Week of Easter
Memorial of Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs.
Acts 28: 16-20, 30-31;
Ps 11: 4-5, 7 (R. 7);
Jn 21: 20-25
KNOWING JESUS!
Imagine the insights that our Blessed Mother would have had about her Son. She, as His mother, would have seen and understood so many hidden moments of His life. She would have watched Him grow year after year. She would have watched Him relate and interact with others throughout His life. She would have noticed that He was preparing for His public ministry. And she would have witnessed so many hidden moments of that public ministry and countless sacred moments of His entire life.
The final sentence of the Gospel of John offers some fascinating insights to reflect upon. All we know about the life of Christ is contained in the Gospels, but how could these short Gospels ever come close to describing the totality of who Jesus is? They certainly cannot. To do that, as John says above, the pages could not be contained in the whole world.
The Gospels show how little we know of Jesus. It also should fill us with a realization that we need to know Jesus more. We must long and a desire for more. This would make us compelled to seek Christ more deeply. Also, even though the numerous events of Christ’s life cannot be contained in countless volumes of books, we can, nonetheless, discover Jesus Himself in what is contained in the Holy Scriptures. We can come to meet the Person. We can come to encounter the Living Word of God Himself in the Scriptures and, in that encounter and meeting of Him, we are given all we need.
Reflect, today, on how deeply you know Jesus. Do you spend sufficient time reading the Scriptures and meditating on them? Do you speak to Him daily and seek to know and love Him? Is He present to you and do you regularly make yourself present to Him? If the answer to any of these questions is “No” then perhaps this is a good day to recommit yourself to a deeper reading of the Sacred Word of God.
Prayer: Lord, I may not know everything about Your life, but I do desire to know You. I desire to meet You every day, to love You and to know You. Help me to enter more deeply into a relationship with You. Jesus, I trust in You. Amen.