Refreshing Bread

Meditation by Fr. Cristian Laslo In today’s Gospel we meet Jesus praying in Gethsemane garden, where He is found by Judah and the Temple’s guard. Through a kiss Jesus is identified, caught, and brought in front of a illegitimate court. They are bringing him false testimonies, but He doesn’t collaborate with the vicious men. Revealing Himself as the Son of God, they accuse Him of blasphemy, and they are sending him at the Roman authority. When we read the end of chapter 14 in the Gospel according to Mark, our heart can be filled with resentment against Jesus’ disciples. On the one hand is Judah, who for a few pennies betrays his Master, his friend, his brother. On the other hand most of the other apprentices, astonished and tired, fled. Peter has an salvific attempt, but he is appeased by Jesus. He also finds the courage to follow the crowd into the courtyard of the high priest, but here he will deny his Master too. Just like Job in his sufferings, Jesus could have said: “… my acquaintances are wholly estrang