Daily Gospel Reflection for March 27, 2024

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Is there anything worse than giving someone we love a chance to tell us the truth, and they lie to our faces? And we both know that we both know it’s a lie?

Today is traditionally called “Spy Wednesday,” the day we remember that Jesus’ friend Judas is the one who set the crucifixion in motion. In today’s Gospel, we read how Jesus told the Apostles that one of them would betray Him.

Judas takes his turn to ask the Lord, “Surely it is not I?”

Jesus responds, “You have said so.”

I’ve often wondered what that meant. Today I wonder if “You have said so” was Jesus’ way of saying, “Make it so.” As in, "If you say you have not betrayed me, then go and undo what you have already done."

If that really was Jesus giving Judas one last chance to change, Judas did not take it. Maybe the thing that’s worse than being lied to is giving the liar a chance to make things right, and that liar keeps on lying.

When we are lied to, many of us Catholic women have been trained to think, “What did I do to make this person betray me? Was it something I did?”

Jesus, Who was living, breathing, walking human perfection—who committed no faults—was betrayed.

Sure, we sin, but sometimes it’s really not our fault we were hurt. Those times can make us feel helpless. In those times, we are called to follow Christ’s example: trust in God, not people, to get us through the worst this fallen world hands us.

Ponder:

Who taught me that if someone has betrayed me, it must have been my fault, and would a loving God want me to go to that person for spiritual counsel?

Pray:

Father, open my eyes to where I have been a betrayer and where I have been betrayed. Help me to be what Judas wasn’t in the former and what Jesus is in the latter.