Tuesday of the 2nd week of Eastertide
First reading – Acts 4:32-37
Today’s reading also deepens the commitment to the call of being a community around Jesus Risen. The whole group of believers was united heart and soul. No one claimed for his own use anything that had, as everything they owned was held in common. This unity of heart and soul because they were following Jesus Christ who was Crucified and Risen. The concrete example of this unity is having things in common and not claiming something for one’s own us. What I have become what we have. “I” disappears and “We” appears. Because in Jesus Christ there is no space of “I” and there is only space for “We”. That is why Barnabas, the Levite of Cypriot origin, who had a piece of land, sold it and brough the money and presented it to the apostles. What he had, disappeared and it became something the community has. This giving up and assuming the identity of the body of Christ is the transformation which the faith in Jesus demands. Let’s reflect: Are we ready to transform our “I” into the “We” that belongs to the body of Risen Christ?
Tuesday 18 April
