Beginning today, I will share these reflections by email and on the blog as I have been doing, but in addition, I will publish these reflections on our new parish Facebook page. In these times of social isolation, people are looking for community, people are looking for inspiration, and we are learning how to use the methods of communication that are at our disposal in order to reach out to those who we cannot physically see.
We all need to find heroes in these dark days. Heroes are the ones who provide us with inspiration. Heroes are the ones who help us not to loose sight of what is truly important. The gospel passage proposed for today's reflection gives us an example of the way in which heroes can inspire us. When Jesus returned to Cana, he was met by a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death (Jn 4:46-47). We can almost hear the anguish in this man's voice, yet he had heard about Jesus and trusted that Jesus had the power to save his son.
Many of us cannot remember a time when we had to be quarantined in order to protect ourselves from the threat of a virulent disease, yet this time is perhaps a new way for us to live Lent. Perhaps we are being invited to discover a new level of trust: trust in our family members who perhaps we have taken for granted, trust in our officials who have our better interests at heart as they make very difficult decisions, trust in the medical professionals who are being called upon to care for those of us who cannot care for ourselves.
Let us pray for the gift of trust to be renewed in our hearts, and let us take advantage of this precious time to ask the Lord to grant us the grace of trusting others, and entrusting ourselves to the care of the divine physician who can cure a dying boy with a word, spoken to a distraught father: Go, your son will live (Jn 4:50).
Have a good day.
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