Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, "Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus' side. So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. He leaned back against Jesus' chest and said to him, "Master, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it." So he dipped the morsel and took it and handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. (Jn 13:21-33, 36-38)
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At the Last Supper it is the Beloved Disciple who is the closest to Jesus. as the Fourth Gospel tells us: He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. In every Eucharist we touch the Heart of the Lord who gives himself for love of us. It is the Beloved Disciple who invites us all to be Beloved Disciples, loved to the end. https://youtu.be/jbmCtfTZO_k?si=-z0hss8J8tcgJLlK
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.
