I gave my back to those who beat me; My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. (Is 50:4-9a)
One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" (Mt 26:14-25)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040523.cfm
As we enter more deeply into Holy Week, it is important that we remember the words of the Second Vatican Council (1965): “What happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.” The Council cautioned that “the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God.” Finally, the Council added: in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone” (Nostra Aetate, 4).
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Wednesday of Holy Week (Spy Wednesday)
