Wednesday of Holy Week

Staying at the Table

There’s something honest about today. It’s the day before everything begins. Tomorrow night, the Triduum starts, and we walk into the heart of it all. And here you are again—just like yesterday, just like the day before.

I’ll be honest with you… sometimes I wonder, why do you keep coming? Not in a bad way, but in a real way. Because you’re here every day. And I know sometimes it can feel like you’ve heard it all before.

The readings today don’t hide that kind of honesty either. In the Gospel of Matthew, Judas is at the table. He’s close to Jesus. He hears the same words as everyone else. He even receives the same bread. And yet, his heart is somewhere else. That’s the danger—not of being far away from Jesus, but of being near Him and slowly drifting without even noticing it.

Then we hear Isaiah, and the tone shifts. “The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue… morning after morning he opens my ear.” Morning after morning. That’s you. You show up day after day. And maybe some days you feel distracted. Maybe some days the homily doesn’t hit you. Maybe some days you’re just here out of habit. But God is still opening your ear, even when it doesn’t feel like anything is happening.

That’s the difference between Judas and a disciple. Judas stayed physically close, but he stopped listening. A disciple keeps showing up and keeps letting God speak, even when it feels ordinary.

So maybe the question isn’t, “Why do you keep coming?” Maybe the real question is, “What is God quietly doing in you because you keep coming?” Because faith isn’t built in big dramatic moments. It’s built in the routine, in the repetition, in the mornings when you don’t feel much but you come anyway.

And tomorrow, everything changes. We enter into the Triduum—the Last Supper, the Cross, the silence of the tomb, and the Resurrection. But you don’t arrive there by accident. You arrive there because you’ve been walking, day after day.

So don’t underestimate what God is doing in you. Even if you don’t feel it. Even if it feels the same. Because the ones who stay are the ones who are ready when everything changes.

Stay at the table… and keep listening—because God is speaking, even now.