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Friends of the Rosary,

Today’s Gospel (John 13:21-33, 36-38) presents the sad scene of betrayal at the Last Supper. The troubled Lord announces that one of the Twelve will betray Him.

The Lord, in sovereign command of the situation, knew that Satan had tempted this disciple.

We see how “after Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him.”

When the betrayer had left, Jesus said,

“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.”

“My children, I will be with you only a little while longer.”

“Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.”

Jesus said to Peter,

“Will you lay down your life for me?
Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow
before you deny me three times.”

The passage contrasts Judas’s betrayal with Peter’s three denials during the interrogation.

Although Peter denies knowing the Master, his tears of remorse and repentance bring him forgiveness. As with the prodigal son, his filial dignity is restored, and the continued outpouring of the Divine Mercy turns him into the rock, the foundation, on which the Church is built.

Brought by grace to the light of repentance, Peter lives, eventually giving his life out of love for the Lord.

Judas, as it will read on Good Friday, compounds his sin of betrayal by committing the sin of despair. Unable to imagine forgiveness for such a sin, he falls into what Pope Benedict XVI once described as his “second tragedy,” killing himself.

Rejecting the Light of the world, Judas enters the darkness of those who hate the divine master plan.

Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!

+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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