Wednesday of Holy Week: Judas' Betrayal

Wednesday of Holy Week

St. Matthew 26:14-16

"Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him."

Wednesday of Holy Week  is the day when Judas agreed with the high priests to betray Jesus.  Judas Iscariot was originally one of the twelve apostles. It’s fitting that, although Judas is not a saint and the only one of the twelve not on the calender, we remember him on this day. We remember this event so that we might realize that all of us are capable of behaving like Judas  because each of us, every day, betrays Christ in ways small and large. Judas was chosen by Christ to be one of the twelve bishops. 

John 12:4-6 

"Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein."

Judas was the bishop who robbed from the poor and betrayed the son of the living God. As a Bishop, Judas didn’t just know the truth, he walked with Christ, the Truth. After all the time he had spent with Christ, Judas still did not recognize that Jesus Christ was God.  Judas did believe in Jesus enough to be his disciple and follow Him, but not enough to acknowledge that He is the Lord. He died in despair by committing suicide.

St. John 6:70 

"Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?"

St. John17:12 

"While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled."

St. Matthew 26:24 

"But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."

Our Lord called Judas a devil and said that he is lost. Judas is eternally lost because he died in his sins through despair, and this judgment by Almighty God was infinitely just.

Judas was the Bishop who handed our Lord to the soldiers for blasphemous tortures. Our Lord was blasphemed and crucified by the soldiers. After the diabolic council of Vatican II, thousands of Bishops became Judas. They have abandoned their Catholic Faith. They have lost their Faith. They became heretics by embracing the heretical ideas condemned by the previous popes. God allowed Himself to be in the hands of His enemies. Like what happened to our Lord, the Catholic Church is under attacked by the hands of God's enemies. The enemies of God are doing their best to destroy the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church buildings are now in the hands of God's enemies. The heretics have been using our Catholic Buildings since Vatican II. They are trying to destroy the Church from within. They are mocking our Lord Jesus Christ by celebrating the New Mass in our Catholic Churches.

He was successfully killed by His enemies but He has risen from the dead. There is resurrection. There will be a glorious resurrection for the Catholic Church after this crisis. God is not dead. God is alive. Everything will be restored in God's time.