Gospel Jn 18:33b-37
Pilate said to Jesus," Are you the King of the Jews?"
Jesus answered, "Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?"
Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here."
So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?"
Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
REFLECTION
"You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
From today's Gospel, the immediate verse that follows reads: "Pilate said to him, “What is truth?'" (Jn 18:38 )
We, like Pilate, many times ask "what is truth?" Society tells us that truth is whatever we make of it. That we can create our own truth, our own reality. But we have to remember that we are not god, and this is not Heaven.
Saint Alphonsus tells us that: "MY LORD Jesus Christ, Who because of Your love for men remain night and day in the Blessed Sacrament, full of pity and of love, awaiting, calling and welcoming all who come to visit You." *
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