00:00:05:20 - 00:00:31:23 Unknown Jesus and Mary. You know, we continue to consider in parallel Jesus the servant of the Lord and Judas, the betrayer of our Lord, mysteriously, even by his betrayal. Indeed, Judas serves the Lord, but unknowingly and without merit. Isaiah has a difficult lesson to teach in his first reading, so he goes step by step so as to not lose his readers. 00:00:32:06 - 00:00:57:03 Unknown I follow an alternative translation for some of this. The Lord God has given me a disciples tongue for for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the weary. Those who suffer in this world, who are often weary and need to hear a word of comfort through Isaiah. Christ speaks to them as a disciple who has learned from Christ the value of suffering and disciple is learned from God. 00:00:57:03 - 00:01:23:29 Unknown The value of suffering. Morning after morning, He brings, He makes my ear to listen like a disciple. Every morning he listens to the Lord in prayer to learn wisdom, and God opens his ear. That is, He gives him the grace to hear and accept what what God is saying. Christ speaks here of Christ, His man and such. He can learn from experience, but he already knows perfectly in a theoretical way. 00:01:25:00 - 00:01:48:24 Unknown In this sense, the letter to the Hebrews says he learned obedience through what he suffered. This is a difficult thing to accept, one might say, like the disciples of Capernaum. This is a hard thing. Who can listen to it? Those who can, who accept the grace to do so. Christ and the Christians who follow their master trusting in Him, even when he leads them towards suffering. 00:01:50:10 - 00:02:08:29 Unknown And we need this trust. We need to have this courage. They can say, The Lord God has opened my ear and I cannot resist it. I have not turned away. By his grace, the servant of God is not closed, is here, is to his door. Its message is learned not to resist his sufferings, not to turn away from them. 00:02:08:29 - 00:02:35:03 Unknown For if they are God's will, good will come of them, even if the opposite would seem more likely. Jesus is the Messiah. He has come to teach the day to the nations. How can we teach the nations? If he dies in the cross? How can he establish his kingdom if he dies? So it would seem that that the cross is totally contrary to Jesus being the Messiah, and yet it is central to His mission in God's plan. 00:02:36:16 - 00:03:01:14 Unknown The servant does not suffer because he is wicked, but because he is righteous. His uprightness and forthrightness attract the crowds that arouse the envy of the hypocrites. And because he is right, he is able to merit by his sufferings as a well-trained disciple. He knows that he is fulfilling his mission. That very mission that we heard about yesterday and the day before in the first two songs of The Servant of the Lord. 00:03:02:18 - 00:03:28:11 Unknown This is why he did not resist his persecutors at various all knowing that great good will come of it for the Lord God is itself, the Psalmist says in the voice of Christ and the source of the Psalm today sheds light on the passion. This time it says, Zeal for our house consumes me. These are the words that Jesus's disciples we caught in relation to the first cleansing of the temple. 00:03:29:00 - 00:03:51:02 Unknown On that occasion, he declared, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. And he was speaking about the temple of his body. That temple will be destroyed in a passion, but rebuilt in his resurrection. And the latter glory of that house will be created in the former. You will not be put to shame. In the end, his sufferings will be his glory. 00:03:51:22 - 00:04:12:29 Unknown As with Lazarus, the illness was not to end in death, but was for the glory of God. So to the story of the Messiah, The story of Christ is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God. But it is like that of Nazareth to pass through death. And so these sufferings will in the end be his glory and sufferings will be His glory. 00:04:12:29 - 00:04:39:15 Unknown And He will have the glory, the resurrection. And. And Saint Paul says this night, momentary affliction is preparing for us in internal way to glory. Beyond all comparison. In the Gospel, we hear it. We can see some of this not turning away playing out. This year, we heard this passage as part of Sunday's Passion Gospel. You know Jesus, who took the form of a servant with a sword for the price of a slave. 00:04:40:21 - 00:05:01:18 Unknown The events in today's gospel took place on on Wednesday and Thursday of the Great Week, after the Lord saw them entering on Sunday with palms and hosannas. He spent Monday and Tuesday teaching in the temple. The Pharisees insurgency tried to trap him with difficult questions, but Christ answered well each time, and in the end they gave up the attempt. 00:05:02:19 - 00:05:27:26 Unknown On Wednesday, Jesus stayed in Bethany, but Judas went to Jerusalem too, to betray him, as we heard, as prophesied. Christ did not resist. To resist betrayal in the sense of stopping it. However, he did try to awaken his betrayed conscience so that he would not be lost. Before that, he kept himself from being handed over to the chief peace, before that time appointed by the Father. 00:05:28:15 - 00:05:51:26 Unknown This is the purpose of the mysterious way he designated the place for the Last Supper. He sent Peter and John to prepare the place and to have the lamb sacrificed in roasted to make all the necessary preparations for the Last Supper. But in such a way that Judas would not knowing in advance where the group was going. In this way he was able to celebrate without interruption. 00:05:51:26 - 00:06:19:21 Unknown The Last Supper, where he offered himself in sacrifice, instituted the Eucharist and the priesthood of the New Covenant, and also made another attempt, almost the last attempt to save Judas. This curious way of designating the place also serves another purpose. Instead of showing the Apostles, especially Peter and John, who had the experience directly, that Jesus knows the future, Jesus knows everything, and events are proceeding according to plan. 00:06:20:18 - 00:06:43:07 Unknown That realization should have helped them to accept Jesus's betrayal and capture as part of God's plan. But they were not sufficiently open to that. Also, in Get so many, we see that Jesus clearly knew what was going to happen, but he did not resist. He did not turn back. On the contrary, he said, Rise. That is be going see, my betrayer is at hand. 00:06:44:00 - 00:07:12:27 Unknown He did not say that us be going away, but let us be going to meet him and not to fight him. Even though Peter had his sword. But rather to be betrayed. And that is go to meet him, to be betrayed, to be captured. And or that I may be captured and released. And so it was. So in all this, Jesus teaches us a radical trust in God, which I trust, which is nothing except disobeying him. 00:07:13:10 - 00:08:01:23 Unknown And he shows that this trust in God is fear of nothing. But sin needs us into glory. Praised by Jesus and Mary and forever.