Faith and Trust

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I am aligned with the scribes and the Pharisees who say to Jesus, “We wish to see a sign from you.”  We want a sign to see that we are doing the right thing or that you really are present in our midst.  Jesus says to the scribes and the Pharisees, and to me or you when you are inclined to ask for the sign, “The only sign you’ll have is that of Jonah.”

Most commentators agree that the sign of Jonah is the sign of the resurrected Christ.  Just as Jonah was in the belly of a whale for three days and three nights, the Lord will be in tomb for 3 days – but He resurrected.

So it’s really not a sign that we need but faith and trust – and that’s what we ask from the Lord this day.

Monsignor Daniel Hoye