Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter
April 9, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040924.cfm
Jesus said to Nicodemus,
John 3: 7-8
“Do not marvel that I said to you,
‘You must be born again.’
The wind[b] blows where it wishes,
and you hear its sound,
but you do not know
where it comes from
or where it goes.
So it is with everyone
who is born of the Spirit.”
Nicodemus comes to Jesus with a flickering hope. He thinks that his life is written in stone, unable to be changed. But in that stone, there is the smallest crack where hope reaches through to the power of Jesus.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
Have you ever messed something up to the point that you long to be able to start over again? Have you ever missed the point of your reality so badly that you pray for the chance to re-launch?
Those moments are your “Nicodemus Moments”. And Easter tells us that, with God, we have an infinite reservoir of chances to grasp the grace of rebirth in the Spirit. Infinite!
Again, and again, and again – as long as we live – God invites us to the next release – the next update – of the beautiful person we are created to be.
Poetry: Nicodemus – Malcolm Guite
This is the gospel of the primal light,
The first beginning, and the fruitful end,
The soaring glory of an eagle’s flight,
The quiet touch of a beloved friend.
This is the gospel of our transformation,
Water to wine and grain to living bread,
Blindness to sight and sorrow to elation,
And Lazarus himself back from the dead!
This is the gospel of all inner meaning,
The heart of heaven opened to the earth,
A gentle friend on Jesus’ bosom leaning,
And Nicodemus offered a new birth.
No need to search the heavens high above,
Come close with John, and feel the pulse of Love
Music: Born Again – Bethel Music
Lavish Mercy 