10 minutes wih Jesus are group of Catholic priests who share friendship with Jesus, plus keenness to help young people of all ages to learn the art of loving Jesus and speaking to Him. You can find them in WhatsApp, Spotify, Ivoox, Telegram, Goggle Podcasts and Apple Podcast. Every saturday, we are going to share one meditation by 10 minutes with Jesus. Enjoy it.
My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with profound reverence, I ask your pardon for my sins, and the grace to make this time or prayer fruitful. My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
Poor eyesight
Now, I imagine you listening to these ten minutes, with Jesus wear glasses, I am fortunate not to wear them and that I’ve been blessed with 20/20 vision as far as I know, but I can imagine that those who wear glasses, and who have a prescription because of poor eyesight, can tell me the experience of putting on glasses for the first time, from that moment of moving from a blurred vision of the world and what surrounds them, to the clarity of vision; we all experience this when we use cameras, when we look into the lens or binoculars for example, at first everything is kind of blurry and hazy, and then as we turn the focus knob, the reality of things become sharpened, I think they could come into focus, they become clearer, or perhaps maybe, we have that experience of arriving to a place at night, a new place that we don’t know, this was often the experience for me on vacation, right when we would arrive at a destination for example, the house of a friend, a lake house, or when we’re going to visit someone at the beach and you arrive late at night; you don’t really see kind of where you’ve where you’ve come to, and then the next morning you walk out as the light of dawn is awakening, and you see really where you are. Or, we could think of the experience in most children have, I certainly had this, of being scared of the dark, being scared of the dark because precisely we don’t see well, and so we can confuse things for something worse, we can confuse things as a threat; I remember once as a child, waking up my parents screaming, because I thought I saw a tarantula on the floor of my bedroom in the dark, and I was so scared, so scared of this really big spider crawling across the floor, and then when my mother turned on the light, right, the light of the room, it made me see that what I thought was a tarantula, was just a bunch of thread string bunched up together on the floor, what look so menacing was completely harmless. This movement from darkness to light, from blurriness to clarity, from confusion to perception, this we can say is the experience of the resurrection, you’ll recall that on Easter Sunday, you lord, you Jesus Christ, you, you appear to the postles, to the holy women, these people who knew you so well, and that in many of those cases when you first appeared to them, they do not recognized you.
Mary Magdalene at the tomb
We can think for example of Mary Magdalene at the tomb Lord, you appeared to her in your resurrected body, but she thinks that you’re the gardener, she confuses you for the gravedigger, or the gardener of the of the cemetery, or we can think of Cleophus and his friend walking on Easter Sunday, crestfallen back to Emmaus, back to their hometown, and how they confuse you Lord, in your resurrected body, in your glorious body, with just one more pilgrim who has come to Jerusalem for the feast, and they gradually come to perceive you, to see you. For Mary Magdalene, it is the moment in which you speak her name, when you say “Mary,” and she responds “rabboni” but she sees you as the rabbi, as the teacher, as her beloved Lord. For Cleophus and his friend, that perception is more gradual, you open up their mind to scripture, and their hearts begin to burn within them as you explain to them the meaning of the prophecies concerning yourself; we know that this perception is gradual, because at first Lord, they see you as a stranger, but by the time they arrive at their village, they see you as a friend, they see you as someone that they care about, and so they ask you to stay with them, stay with us Lord, for it is getting dark, and they invite you in for dinner, and then the clincher, they recognize you in the breaking of the bread, in the Eucharist. In today’s Gospel Lord, we speak, we hear you speaking in that discourse at the temple, just before your passion, and in this discourse you cry out, you exclaimed to all of the people listening to you “he who believes in Me, believes not in me but in him who sent me;” my lord, you’re speaking of the father, and “he who sees me sees him who sent me, I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me, may not remain in darkness.” Lord, you described yourself as the light that has come into the world, in fact this is how John, because where we just read the Gospel of John, this is how he begins his gospel, but Jesus is the light of the world, the light that has come into the darkness, and Lord, you are light that sheds light all around you, and reveals to us the truth of things, because this is what light does right, for example in that experience that I had as a child, when my mother flicked on the light of my bedroom, she was shedding truth upon everything that I was scared of, she showed me with the light, that that’s not a tarantula that’s attacking you, it’s simply a little ball of thread that can’t do a thing. Light is truth, light allows us to perceive things as they really are.
On the road to Emmaus
On the road to Emmaus Lord, you were light for Cleophus and his friend, and in fact, by explaining to them the truth of Scripture, you brought warmth to their hearts, right, their hearts burned within them, but you also brought them sight so that they could see you, so they could see you in your risen form, the sight of faith, the light of true vision. In this discourse Lord, that we are meditating on today, from the gospel of today’s mass, you describe yourself as the light that has come into the world, and that those who believe in you will not remain in darkness. What is darkness? Darkness is ignorance, darkness is the blindness of lies, it’s living in an untruth just before this discourse. We know that some Greeks came up to the Apostles in fact they came up to Philip, who perhaps knew Greek or was Greek himself, and asked him, “sir we wish to see Jesus,” I think they want to come to see the Lord. This is a very deep expression, and we can say the same, or we want to see you, we want to see you as you truly are in your resurrected form, we want to see you with the eyes of faith; you are the light and you need to illuminate the darkness of my soul, the darkness of my sinfulness, the darkness of my vision that is so often blurry and clouded, and that keeps me from seeing the truth of things. Is it no true my brothers and sisters, that oftentimes we can we can go about our day blinded by our pride? blinded by our sensuality? blinded by our fears and anxiety? and what does this do? this keeps us from seeing the Lord, this keeps us from seeing the beauty of reality, we have like a warped view of reality Lord, you say the light is with you for a little longer referring to yourself, as the light of Christ’s walk while you have the light, less the darkness overtake you, he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes, while you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light; that’s the goal we want, to be children of God, children of the light, so that we can see the Lord in each and every situation of our life, this requires seeing reality in all of its depth, it requires putting on these glasses, we could say of grace that clarifies reality.
Materialist society
You know we all grow up, we’ve all grown up in a materialist society, a society that is bent upon having us see things in a purely material way, and that denies as it were the spiritual reality of things, this upper level we could say over the world which is the spirit, and so were induced into this culture that is obsessed with stuff right, with things we’re constantly in being encouraged to consumed by, to keep things, to get bogged down in possessions, in material wealth, we can think also of the cult of the body, this obsession with Fitness, with a physique, with looking good, and so all of the vanity and psycho sexualized culture, that can keep us again in a warped reality by forgetting that we are both, body and soul, and forgetting the dignity of the body, we are concerned for status, right, for power, for honor, all of this craze of social media, which can often again warp the way, we see things because we’re so obsessed with our own status, with coming off well, with impressing, with getting likes, having friends, etc. We ask you Lord, that you clarify our vision, that you help us to see, as you see to walk in the light, until we become children of the light, this requires supernatural outlook, we ask our lady that she helped us to acquire this supernatural vision, this vision that comes when we make contact, as it were with the risen Lord.
It´s the end
I give you thanks my God for the good resolutions, affections and inspirations which you communicated to me during this meditation. I ask your help to put them into effect my mother Immaculate, St. Joseph my father and Lord, my guardian angel intercede for me.
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