FRIDAY 9th APRIL 2021
John 21, 1-14:
“Jesus said to them, ‘Friends, have you caught any fish?’ They answered, “No”. He said to them, ‘Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some. And they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the multitude of fish”.
Seven disciples of Jesus, bored and with nothing else to do, go fishing. Possibly longing for the job that some of them had before they followed Jesus. But that night “they caught nothing”.
The Risen Jesus is present and orders them to cast the net.
They cast it, and “they did not have the strength to pull it in because of the multitude of fish”.
How many times also in our spiritual life we do things out of routine, out of boredom, without any hope.
We pray because we have to, we go to Mass as a routine, we take part in this or that celebration because we have nothing better to do.
And so we don’t “catch anything”.
Turn to the Risen Jesus this Easter season. You will see that his saving power overcomes your apathies, your routine and your boredom.
And you will notice that your spiritual life is resurrected in an “abundant catch”.
Good day.
Antonio Sanjuán Marín, cmf
