--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/19/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/19/11 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2011/04/19/daily-readings-reflection-for-41911#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/19/11 Apr 19, 2011 7:00:43 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 259: Isaiah 49:1-6. Psalm 71:1-2.3-4.5-6.15.17. John 13:21-33.36-38 [Tuesday's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/041911.shtml) We are at the table with Jesus and his disciples in an upper room. This circle of intimate friends includes us through our prayer and dediction to following Jesus especially during these days of Holy Week.  We realize this is the most intimate and serious time in Jesus' life and soon he will be giving us through the apostles his last will and testament. The Passover meal is being prepared as Jesus gathers at table with the apostles. We, of course, through our participation in the Eucharist are one with them in the liturgical concept of time, that of "Chairos" not chronos. The bread broken and given is our sacrament of being one with Jesus and his apostles. Jesus shows us a new experience of the Exodus and a way to freedom by his words of love (agape) and his actions of washing the feet of those gathered in his name. It is through his commandment of love (agape) that we actually have Jesus present among us. Judas, unfortunately, leaves the table. It is night! The hour of the prince of darkness is here, but Jesus' "hour"is also approaching with the Passover celebrated by the people.  Jesus will be led to his cross at the very time the lambs are being led to their slaughter in preparation for the feast. The realism of the scenes that are put before us mirror who we are and we see a little of our own self in the apostles like Peter, the Beloved Disciple, and even in Judas.  We learn much from the whole narrative but it is especially in John's Gospel that we are able to see the inner life of Jesus in what happens in chapters 13 through 17.  Love and unity are emphasized for those who follow the Beloved Disciple. He it is who will stand at the foot of the cross with Mary the Mother of Jesus and with the other saintly women.    We are led to make the hours that lie ahead of us this week to be one with the "hour" of Jesus through which the Evangelist tells us is the passion, the death, and the raising up of Jesus in glory to the right hand of the Father. Our first reading is from the Servant Song  found in Isaiah, the second of the songs that  show us the sufferings of the Servant of God who is a figure of the Messiah, not the royal image, but the humble servant messiah. This is the one like Jesus who is the light of the world that lies in darkness just as Judas left the warmth and light of Jesus around the table for the darkness outside.  When death is around the corner, the contrasts in life are more clearly felt.  This is what all of the apostles will soon realize. Jesus, however, through his salvific actions and words will reach the ends of the earth (Isaiah 49:6).  Come, let us enter into his hour and follow him on the road to Calvary.   We praise you, O Jesus, for your Cross and Resurrection.  You are the Savior of the World. 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