A crucial day in Holy Week: Judas makes his move to hand Jesus over to the Pharisees, Peter pledges his loyalty, "I will lay down my life for you." (Jn 13:37), and bombs kill 28 people in Brussels. The actions of the terrorists are betrayals of the dignity and respect humans owe one another as revenge escalates in ancient "eye for an eye" morality. We might ask forever, "who threw the first stone?" and never get an answer, such is the state of denial in our global morality. Outrage, attempts at some sort of justice, much blaming on all sides. We are as stumped as Pilate: "Truth, what is truth?"
Turning the focus from the world to the individual soul, do we not find a similar pattern of betrayal, denial and self-destruction, blaming and absence of truth in our own lives? Peter was given a dose of reality when Jesus said, ""I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times." (Jn 13: 38). At the third crow, the words of Jesus hit Peter like the proverbial ton of bricks, and he went out and "wept bitterly." Accepting our weakness, our need for redemption and yes, some healthy weeping might tack a note of sincerity on all we have said and tried to do during this Lent.
Bro. Rene
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