The Right Choice (S2E28)

Meditation by Fr. Cristian Laslo Today’s Gospel is inviting us to reflect upon our Savior who is brought in front of the world’ rulers to be judged for revealing God’ love for mankind. Trying to interfere as little as possible in Jewish community, Pilate offers them to choose between Jesus and Barabbas, a killer. And they have chosen the killer. Jesus’ dialog with Pilate is more like a friendly talking than an interrogation. At Pilate’s questions, Jesus is not answering; He didn’t come to justify Himself. He came to act accordingly to the Father’ will. “He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.” (Isaiah 53, 7). Just like his disciples, the multitude seems to have forgotten the miracles that were done for them. They were already fed, healed, resurrected. They got what they expected, and now, after they have spread their clothing at His feet, they want Him dead. And they found even an alternative to be release: a killer who disobeyed the roman ruler and thought that he will free the land of Israel into a rebellion. Jesus was ready for this too. He was prepared for the supreme sacrifice which have shaken the world and its numbness, for “… the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true…” (I John 5, 20). Today we are working for our bread, we are praying for a miracle when we are sick, and we might have little confidence in front of the death. But children are killed in their mothers’ wombs, elders and veterans are abandoned on the streets and it seems that Jesus has died on the Cross. Where is He nowadays? Where is He when we need Him? Well, He is still alive in the Sacraments and acts pale through the humblest instruments who chose Him into their lives. The evil ruler of this world puts us to choose between Christ our Savior and the sweet deadly sin. Whom we choose today? Mark 15, 1-15 Music: Lost Frontier by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)