Wednesday of Holy Week

Then one of the Twelve, the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, 'What are you prepared to give me if I hand him over to you?' They paid him thirty silver pieces and from that moment he looked for an opportunity to betray him.

Thirty pieces of silver was the price of a slave. It is ironic that it only took such a small amount of money to make Judas a slave since he was a thief.  But Judas is not alone – we are all slaves to sin which makes us slaves to death.

Yet, for our sake, Jesus became a slave, he traded places with us, to ransom us from sin and death and the power of the devil, to give us eternal Life.

There is nothing we can ever do to repay him, but we should at least try. Let us constantly offer him our prayer, our work, our joy and our suffering in return.