Gospel: John
16:16-20
(Jesus said
to his disciples) “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again
a little while later and you will see me.” So some of his disciples said
to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while
and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and
‘Because I am going to the Father’?” So they said, “What is this ‘little while’
of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” Jesus knew that they wanted
to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I
said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you
will see me’? Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the
world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.”
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Reflection:
It’s always
heartbreaking when somebody permanently say goodbye to us most especially if
they’re very close to us. Tears will flow like a stream and our life will never
be the same anymore because a deep void has been created by that person who
left us.
Jesus is
mysteriously saying His goodbye to the disciples and they could not understand
it. They were puzzled and somewhat melancholy. But then Jesus is also saying to
them that you will be seeing me soon after also.
Unlike the
permanent goodbye of a friend or relative, Jesus’ goodbye is temporary. He
comes back to us the moment we sought Him back again. Actually it’s not Jesus
who leaves us; it’s us (by way of our sinfulness) who run away from HIM. This
occurs when we purposely forget HIM to embrace sin.
But why do we
embrace sin (knowing that it will only give us nothing but problems)? Perhaps
we think that we could escape the consequence of our sins. But it has been
proven time and again that we always pay for our sinfulness whomever we are. It may take time
but certainly we will pay, there’s no free ride in this world most especially
in matters of sin. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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