THE MAN CALLED JUDAS

PRAYER MOMENT  (Apologies for delay - power cut)

Wedneday 1 April 2015

THE MAN CALLED JUDAS

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Then one of the twelve, the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you prepred to give me if I hand him over to you?” (Matthew 26:14-25)

Reflection. ‘One of the twelve!’ ‘One of us!’ It was so painful for the gospel writers to recall the treachery of Judas. It could have been any of them. We may rush to say we would never have done such a thing but surely the point is; we could have. There are so many evil things we could have done in our life. Ignatius, in his Spiritual Exercises, has us give ‘a cry of wonder’ – something he experienced at Manresa – that I was saved from such a fate. And he has us go on to pray that we may be ‘filled with horror’ as a result of ‘understanding the disorder of my actions.’ It is easy to pigeonhole Judas with the baddies in history but there is something of Judas in all of us. 

Prayer. Lord, let us know the horror of what we are capable of and fill us with gratitude that you have saved us from following through on our worst impules. Amen.

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