27 April 2022
Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
“I will bless the Lord at all times.”
Today’s Gospel offers us one of the most famous lines from the New Testament: “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” Biblical faith does not mean an intellectual assent to a proposition, but an act of entrustment to the Lord, an act of active and daily trust of one’s life in the hands of the Lord. In light of this, the above line could read: God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who ‘trusts in Christ’ might not perish.
This past Sunday was Divine Mercy Sunday. The image of the Divine Mercy has one line at the bottom: Jesus, I trust in you. Sr. Faustina’s revelation, which has been offered to the universal Church through John Paul II, invites Christians into an act of entrustment to our merciful and good Savior. The Divine Mercy image takes us to the heart of John 3:16. Jesus I trust in you is a beautiful and necessary response to God’s Love manifested in Christ, manifested in the Cross, and manifested in the Resurrection. God so loved us to give us his son; let us pray to love God so much that we give him our trust each and every moment of our day today.