Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
(Wisdom 2:1a.12-22; John 7:1-2.10.25-30)
In today’s gospel the people think that they know where
Jesus is from because they know that he grew up in Galilee. However, more important than his human origin
and more indicative of where he is from is his divine origin. He is from God which the people should be
able to guess from his miraculous works.
We may not be capable of miraculous works, but we can
perform acts of charity. They would signal
that we have a divine origin and, more important a divine destiny. In her book Dialogue Catherine of
Siena tells us of another way to show our divine origin and destiny. She writes that patience and charity go
hand-in-hand. When we suffer setbacks with
patience, we likewise do good for our neighbors. In right order then our good deeds reveal
that we are from God and will return to Him.
