Gospel Reflection – Monday, April 13, 2026

Friends, in the present day within the Gospel we now have an inexhaustible and wealthy dialog with Nicodemus, by which Jesus tells him: “I assure you that anyone who is not reborn from above cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus is talking very frankly in regards to the metanoiain regards to the change of perspective required earlier than with the ability to expertise the vitality of incarnation. Jesus senses that Nicodemus, an awesome “teacher of Israel,” is caught in an internet of egocentric considerations, nonetheless fearfully clinging to energy and standing, content material in subjection to the spiritual traditions of his individuals.

And Jesus’ concern is confirmed within the virtually comedian rationalism of Nicodemus’ response to the invitation to be born once more: “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born again?” While Jesus speaks with evocative and analogical language in regards to the soul, Nicodemus listens with the ears of the ego, of the rational energy that needs to know clearly and management.

It is exactly this fearful rationalism that Nicodemus should abandon within the painful means of rebirth and reconfiguration of the soul.