Long shielded from the cosmic war waged by Satan and his legions against all that is good, it’s no surprise we’d be shaken to our core when God gives us a sneak peek.
- by Professor Janet E. Smith
The Gospels do not tell us precisely where the apostles went after the crucifixion, but there is some evidence that they retired to the upper room where the Last Supper had taken place. Perhaps, as we are told they did later, they locked the doors out of fear. I have been trying to do a lectio divina and place myself there to experience what was going on with the apostles. I find myself in an extremely uncomfortable scenario.
Peter, who had recently betrayed Christ, was there—Peter (the rock!) who had also, along with all the other apostles besides John, run away from the scene of the crucifixion. Did others know that Peter had betrayed Christ? Did he tell them? Did they question John about what he saw and heard and experienced at the crucifixion? Did they all feel like rats, or were they dominated by fear that they would be arrested and punished for being His followers?
Certainly, they were tremendously confused. Scripture tells us that they had forgotten—even John?!—that Jesus told them He was going to rise on the third day. It must have been terribly uncomfortable to be in the very room where Jesus introduced the Eucharist, that they were to do in memory of Him, and where Jesus washed their feet. Moreover, He had said to them:
It is you who have stood by me in my trials, and I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father had conferred one on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in the kingdom, and you will sit on the thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Luke 22:28-30)
Did they discuss this and try to puzzle out what it must mean in the light of Jesus’ death, or were they just so traumatized that their memories were erased? Their misery must have been phenomenal.
Some of us have experienced the last pontificate as a trauma, but that is not the worst of it. Many have been diving deeply into the dark forces in the Church and have found Masons, communists, modernists, homosexuals, and satanists. We are positively reeling at the extent of corruption that has been present for over a century in the Church, if not much longer (always?).
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