Reading and meditation on the Word of God on Saturday of the 7th week of Easter, June 7, 2025

Delivered by Jack and Joanna from the Parish of Saint Gabriel in the Diocese of Bandung, Indonesia. Acts of the Apostles 28: 16-20.30-31; Rs psalm 11: 4.5.7; John 21: 20-25.NECESSARY INTERVETNION Our meditation today is entitled:Necessary Intervention. With this statement we want to express an appropriateand correct intervention. We can also be reminded that if one is not inclinedto interfere then he doesn’t need to do so. If you feel obliged to intervene inanother’s matter, just do it anyway. The Holy Spirit who moves us at the righttime, will allow us to intervene in the affairs of others or of common things,but at other moments He will prevent us from doing so. Many people often share theirexperiences, especially about personal life and the journey of their faith,with the help of daily meditation through this La Porta media. All gave theirappreciation and gratitude because this spiritual sharing serves to intervene intheir personal lives. A devout listener once wrote a message like this:"Father, I feel my life every day is disturbed by the pouring out of God'sword. I felt reprimanded, but at the same time I am consoled, calm, anddirected towards the wisdom of God." This is an example of doingintervention in the proper and right moment. For the apostle Peter, it seems hewas reprimanded by Jesus because he intervened with the affairs of otherdisciple who the Lord loved so much. He also intervened Jesus' own affairs.According to Jesus, Peter must take care of his matters before being busy withthe matters of others. In other words, there are always moments  that are not right to intervene. This alsohappened with the interest of Roman authority and the diputes of Jewishreligious leaders reagarding the sufferings and trials of the apostle Paulwhile he was in Rome. Our intervention with the matters ofothers is basically unavoidable. That's part of giving attention to them. Butin order to be a very positive act and as a service, we should be able to avoidthe two extremes that make an intervention wrong and negative on ourselves andothers. The first extreme is about theunnecessary, or precisely, excessive and improper time and place of making an intervention.To a person who was stressful and sad, we actually involved him in a discussionof something that made him more confused and depressed. The second is not doinganything or not at all intervening. A friend regretted that he could not helphis friend, when in fact he could provide his help, and as a result the friendsuffered a more severe accident. So, by avoiding these two extremes there isonly one choice, namely the action of intervention that is needed, at the righttime and place, according to one’s need or interest. Let's pray. In the name of theFather ... Listen to our prayers, o Lord, as we beg for our mutual cooperationof individuals and communities or the society that really aims to improve ourquality of life according to Your will. Our Father who art in heaven ... In thename of the Father ...