THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER

April, 20 2011

 

D A I L Y G O S P E L

 

As a final reflection on service, it is good to remind ourselves that whatever the will of God is for us, whether small or big, it is an essential part of God’s overall plan for each of us as individuals and all of us as a whole. None of us has the capacity to fully understand the will of God so we may as well give up trying to do that. Let us be satisfied with being faithful to each of the steps He calls us to make and trust that at the end of the journey we will be right where He wants us to be – with Him in heaven forever! That sounds a good enough goal to me.

 

VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL

Hail to you, our King; you alone are compassionate with our errors.

 

Matthew 26:14-25

14 One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, 16 and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. 17 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18 He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.” ’ ” 19 The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover. 20 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. 21 And while they were eating, he said, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him one after another, “Surely it is not I, Lord?” 23 He said in reply, “He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me. 24 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.” 25 Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” He answered, “You have said so.”