Reflection for Tuesday December 27 Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist: John 20:1a, 2-8

Gospel: John 20:1a, 2-8

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they put him." So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.  

They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.

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Reflection:

Do you sometimes have this feeling wherein you look for God and you hunger for Him yet you cannot find Him? Don’t give up for if you will not give up you will be able to find Him.  Yet if you want to easily find God and make Him your friend and daily companion you have to do the following: 

1. Always find time to be present in the celebration of the Holy Mass. 

2. Have a daily habit of prayer at least twice a day, preferably upon waking up in the morning and before retiring at night.  

3. Have a daily habit of planned reading the Holy Bible: Start with the first four gospels of the New  Testament. 

4. Discover the immense spiritual blessing of praying the Holy Rosary. 

5. Have the hunger for the Sacrament of Holy Communion and Confession. 

If you do all of these, God would always be by your side. In the gospel, Mary Magdalene, Simon Peter and the other disciple went to the tomb of Jesus. Only to find out that He was not there anymore for He had resurrected already. 

But surely it was only the physical presence of Jesus that they were missing.  Deep in their hearts Jesus was also with them for all of them were very close to the Lord. – Marino J. Dasmarinas