Fr Richard's Homily for today, the Tuesday of Holy Week
Tuesday of Holy Week: Glory amid the darkness
As soon as Satan enters Judas
at the Last Supper, he departs, thus rejecting that Sacred Meal by which we are
saved. We then hear those ominous words: “Night had fallen.”
But immediately, amid the
darkness, the true and everlasting Light shines out for the whole world. Jesus reacts
immediately to the gloom of the night by revealing His glory: “Now has the Son
of Man been glorified, and in him God has been glorified. If God has been
glorified in him, God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him
very soon.” In other words, God is glorified in the person of the Son, Jesus
Christ; and at His death and Resurrection, God will glorify the Son. Jesus, who
is God, is revealing to the disciples the glory and kingship that’s to shine
forth from His own Person in the Triumph of the Cross and the joy of the Resurrection.
The glorified Christ is truly
the “light of the nations”, prefigured by the mission in the Old Testament of
the Prophet Isaiah we hear about in today’s Reading. In the Mission of Christ,
God’s salvation truly reaches "the ends of the earth". Faced with this dazzling
light of salvation presented to him, Judas freely chooses, rather, to slip off
into the darkness; to reject the Lord’s promise of heaven; to embrace death.
In our current time of
darkness where suffering, insecurity and death swirls around us, we should be
on our guard. Don’t be remotely tempted to follow Judas out into the darkness
of despair. Don’t be fooled, even for one moment, into thinking there’s no hope
amid this awful pandemic.
Remember – Christ has conquered
death; remember He has won for us everlasting life. This victory we will
celebrate on Good Friday and on Easter Day. Christ reigns in the glory of
heaven. He waits for us to bask in that glory of the Father forever. Amen.
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