Wednesday, April 8th, 2020

Today since medieval times this day has been known as Spy Wednesday.  Why spy?  Its because on this day Judas goes in secret, without telling his colleagues, or his master, to sell information about his master to his enemies.  The Jewish leaders really had a spy, a paid secret agent, where they wanted one - at the very heart of Jesus’ work and personal life.

Pretty terrible huh?

So the next question is: what do you accept to betray Jesus?  What’s your rate? For this is of course the flip side of a betrayal coin.  When we feel betrayed, we’re all guns out for justice and just retribution and so on.  Beautiful. Wonderful. So for every one of our sins, God can apply justice and retribution to us too right?  Suddenly we stop, and are silent. And our heart says, no please God, forgive me, be merciful to me.  It’s a great way to understand why we should then also be merciful to others.

Let’s us take time to beg God for mercy.  And so let us also take far more seriously our mission to pray for mercy for the whole of the world.

Let us pray: 

O God, who willed your Son to submit for our sake

to the yoke of the Cross,

so that you might drive from us the power of the enemy,

grant us, your servants, to attain the grace of the resurrection.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.