GOSPEL POWER l JUNE 6, 2022 - MONDAY of 10th Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel: Jn 19:25-34  

25Standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s  sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus  saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her,  he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 27Then he said to  the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple  took her into his own home. 28After this, when Jesus knew that all  was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am  thirsty.” 29A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put  a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his  mouth. 30When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.”  Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 31Since it was the  day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross  during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great  solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men  broken and the bodies removed. 32Then the soldiers came and broke  the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.  33But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they  did not break his legs. 34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side  with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. 

In the Gospel of John, Mary appears only at two pivotal  moments of Jesus’ life. At the wedding of Cana, she hastens  the coming of Jesus’ hour by moving him to perform his first  sign of changing water into wine. Then she reappears at the climax  of Jesus’ hour at the foot of his cross. Significantly, on both occasions,  Jesus calls her “Woman,” deliberately evoking Eve, the first man’s  companion and helper in Genesis. If the first Eve generated children  in the flesh, Mary, the new Eve, will generate children in the Spirit, as  she accepts from her crucified Son the mandate to be the mother of  all believers, represented here by the beloved disciple. 

Lord Jesus, thank you for sharing with us the most intimate human  relationship you had on earth by giving us your own mother to be our