Tuesday 20 May 2025
St Bernardine of Siena
Acts 14:19-28. Your friends tell the glory of your kingship, Lord – Ps 144(145):10-13, 21. John 14:27-31.
A peace the world cannot give is my gift to you
Jesus offers us peace. A peace that allows us to move beyond fear. We do not have it now fully, but we glimpse it, experience it from time to time, sense it enough to hope in a peace that will be everlasting. In coming from God the Father, Jesus enters our reality to convey the possibility of this peace enveloping us.
Now, though, we live amid tensions and violence. Like the disciples in our reading from Acts, today we experience our share of hardships. We are aware of so many others who have it much tougher. Still, by offering the peace we have received, by loving as we have been loved by the God who comes to meet us as we are, we can help bring peace to this time, even though it will be incomplete.
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