{"id":1194,"date":"2016-03-22T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:07:01","slug":"holy-week-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/03\/22\/holy-week-tuesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week, Tuesday (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel we consider the hearts of two disciples: a traitor and a coward. John describes Satan as entering into Judas; he&#8217;s just accepted a morsel, a token of friendship, from Our Lord, and in complete duplicity goes out into the night to betray him. It is reminiscent of one of the last <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/03\/16\/5th-week-of-lent-wednesday\/\">arguments<\/a>\u00a0Our Lord\u00a0had with the Jews who didn&#8217;t believe in him: they didn&#8217;t believe in the Father, therefore they didn&#8217;t believe in Jesus, and their &#8220;father&#8221; was the Devil. If Judas ever believed in Jesus, he doesn&#8217;t believe in him anymore, and it was time for him to stop making any pretense of following him and to cash in.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Simon Peter didn&#8217;t understand Our Lord&#8217;s announcement of his departure entirely, but in his heart and in the last weeks they&#8217;d live together he knew it was a matter of life and death. His noble aspiration of unfailing dedication to Our Lord, even until death, was expressed. Perhaps it was prophetic, but Simon Peter&#8217;s &#8220;hour&#8221; had not yet come. Our Lord prepared him for the cowardice he would soon show, not in condemnation, but to help him grow in self-knowledge. Simon Peter would discover it himself, the hard way, but was not a lost cause. In the end he did lay down his life for Our Lord, years later, in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lord reads hearts. He wants to read yours and help you to learn more about yourself this Holy Week. If you&#8217;re a coward, he&#8217;ll help you discover that and overcome it. Don&#8217;t be afraid to let him. The difference between Judas and Peter is that Judas shut everyone out of his heart, and Peter didn&#8217;t. As long as you foster an open heart, there is hope.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Isaiah 49:1\u20136;\u00a0Psalm 71:1\u20134a, 5a\u20136b, 15, 17;\u00a0John 13:21\u201333, 36\u201338.<\/em> See also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/04\/03\/holy-week-tuesday\/\">Holy Week, Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/04\/03\/holy-week-wednesday\/\">Holy Week, Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Icon-Liturgy-Purple-e1480745112394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1957\" src=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Icon-Liturgy-Purple-e1480745112394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel we consider the hearts of two disciples: a traitor and a coward. John describes Satan as entering into Judas; he&#8217;s just accepted a morsel, a token of friendship, from Our Lord, and in complete duplicity goes out into the night to betray him. It is reminiscent of one of the last arguments\u00a0Our &#8230; <a title=\"Holy Week, Tuesday (2)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/03\/22\/holy-week-tuesday-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Holy Week, Tuesday (2)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,13],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holy-week","tag-tuesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-jg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}