Monday of the Third Week of Easter
April 15, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041524.cfm
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,
John 6:24-27
they themselves got into boats
and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
And when they found him across the sea they said to him,
“Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jesus answered them and said,
“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me
not because you saw signs
but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
Do not work for food that perishes
but for the food that endures for eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you.
In today’s Gospel, the people come to Jesus because of the food! They come because of the instant miracle! Jesus knows this but he wants them to come in the full commitment of their hearts to life in him.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
God knows all our “becauses”. God sees our heart’s motivations.
But God can crack through our old and deadened self-definitions and hungers to bear eternally surprising life in us.
There is nothing … nothing … that God cannot transform with mercy, forgiveness, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Poetry: Because There Is No Coffee in Heaven – Andrea Potos
What I will miss the most: that rich-
incense scent of morning, nut-brown
ever-so-slightly discernable bitterness
flowing as part tonic, part promise
of good to come,
though also as reminder
that now, this now
of the moment--sip, taste
and swallow--is the only
moment there is.
Music: Soul Food – Dean Evenson
Lavish Mercy 
God sees the heart’s motivation.
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