Holy Tuesday B
As our Lord continues accompanying us with his grace as we recall this all-important week in his terrestrial life and public ministry, we see that according to the evangelists Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus again returns to Jerusalem from Bethany on Holy Tuesday from the east. On the way there, Peter sees that the fig tree Jesus had cursed the day before (Holy Monday) had suddenly withered. What follows is an important lesson that none of the apostles would forget, especially Peter, who himself was about to undergo a huge test in his faith. Before we get to the fig tree and its meaning, we see that though we are still on Tuesday of Holy Week, the Gospel for today is from what happened in a just a couple of days from Tuesday on Holy Thursday at the Last Supper. There our Lord will remind Peter that giving him our lives will be more difficult than we think. We read,