When Jesus said to Judas on the night of his betrayal: \"Friend, why have you come?\" (Matthew 26:50), He revealed that the one who is constant in the relations between us and Him is He Himself! Luke, in listing the disciples, said: \u201cand Judas who also became a traitor\u201d (6:16). People reverse themselves. How does Jesus remain capable of friendship in times when we do not show that we deserve anything? A shocking thing, really! However, it is more to be desired than honey. I have not concealed from you, in previous lines, my belief that our reversal, in our relationship with Jesus, does not refer to a friendship that we had accepted and then retracted, but that we have been deceitful from the very beginning with our showing a love that we do not really feel. Jesus, this desirable God, is, alone, a perfect love story. Yes, alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Jesus said to Judas on the night of his betrayal: \"Friend, why have you come?\" (Matthew 26:50), He revealed that the one who is constant in the relations between us and Him is He Himself! Luke, in listing the disciples, said: \u201cand Judas who also became a traitor\u201d (6:16). People reverse themselves. How does ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[3100,3101,3099,1741,1355],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-betrayal-and-forgiveness","tag-christian-loyalty","tag-divine-friendship","tag-judas-iscariot","tag-unconditional-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}