Your son will live

REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus is at Cana when a royal official from Capernaum encounters him. The royal official’s son is on the verge of death. Capernaum is 20-25 miles from Cana.

The royal official asks Jesus to come down to heal his son. Jesus tells the man to go home, and the man goes his way believing that the word of Jesus is enough. He hears of his son’s recovery the following day.



His love for his son and his faith in Jesus are abundantly rewarded. When love is the foundation of trust, it cannot be shaken by any kind of adversity. That is why when we fully trust God, we are assured that we are standing on a very stable, solid ground.

We see this in Jesus’ trust in the Father. Even in suffering and death, Jesus trusted the Father’s will. We witness the same trust in our parents who painstakingly guided us and molded us to who and what we have become today.

They trusted even though many times they were hurt. They never lost hope in us. Why? Because they were driven by their deep love for us.

First Reading • Is 65:17-21 Thus says the Lord: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying; No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.

They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant. Responsorial Psalm • Ps 30 “I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.” Gospel • Jn 4:43-54 At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast. Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine.

Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.

While the man was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.

” The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe. Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea. Source: “365 Days with the Lord 2025,” St.

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