It was night – John 13:30
In today’s Gospel, Satan enters Judas — and “it was night…the triumph of darkness” (Jn 13:30; Lk 22:53). “Men loved darkness rather than light” (Jn 3:19). It wasn’t one bad day that caused Satan to enter Judas at the most holy environment of the Last Supper. Judas deteriorated little by little. It was the daily decisions to seek the power and lures of the kingdom of darkness rather than seeking the kingdom of God. How ironic that on the very week that he should have most been seeking Jesus, Judas was instead constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to...