WORD 2day: A chip from the same block

Tuesday,  III week of Easter: 21st April, 2015
Acts 7:51 -8:1a; Jn 6: 30-35.

Sometimes when I speak to the youngsters about the suffering that Jesus underwent, about his endurance of passion,  his capacity to surrender into the hands of God,  his capacity to forgive etc.,  they tend to retort saying: 'but he was son of God!" That is a heretic way of thinking,  I used to threaten them.

Yes Jesus was the Son of God but he was a human person and fully so. He was not appearing to be a human being,  he was a human being. As the letter to the Hebrews says,  he was like us,  a human being in everything! That is infact the most challenging part of our faith. That Jesus lived our life,  he went through all that we experience ourselves: feelings and temptations,  sufferings and anxieties,  irritations and all of human realities. The challenge is that we live in his footsteps.  The early Church was highly conscious of this call and we have today in the first reading the fruit of this.

Stephen was a chip from the same block as Christ. That is what we are called to be,  a chip from that same block.