Sometime even a text you are very familiar with can reach out and bite you. I was struck that St. John adds a comment after Judas leaves the Last Supper. “It was night.” I don’t think this was a chronological statement but a theological one. It is always night when you reject the kind of love and mercy Jesus was extending to Judas. (The scene is set right after Jesus washed the feet of the apostles.) It is always night when you don’t see the needs of the people around you. It is always night when you are so self-absorbed that you lose your ability to feel for others. Our prayer today — bring into the light all those hurts, those resentments, those grudges, that resistance which keeps us from enjoying the fullness of grace and peace.
