John 13: 21-33; 36-38 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)

One of you will betray me. How stunned we will be if we were sitting in that table. We may wonder why any one of us would be so stupid to betray him. He has revealed himself to us as truly the Son of God. Through his ministry, many people have been blessed. We are living witnesses to this. We may think of Judas as being foolish. Yet, sometimes, we are more foolish than Judas. Jesus Christ has revealed himself to us in the breaking of the bread and has given us a rare privilege of becoming the sons and daughters of God, yet we find ourselves denying him. We deny Jesus, if we fail to respond to his love. When we are unfaithful to him, we deny him. When we are ashamed of speaking about him to another person during that rare moment we should have evangelized, we deny him. We did not receive the spirit of timidity, St. Paul tells us. We must always stand with and for Jesus.

In what ways do you betrayed Jesus?