prophets, had come back to life. As for Herod, he said, “I had John beheaded.
Who is this man, about whom I hear such wonders?” And he was anxious to see him.
Reflect:
When life is seen as pure chance (as we saw yesterday), everything in life becomes
meaningless and depressing. It is this sense of meaninglessness and depression that we
find in the words of the author of Ecclesiastes (first reading). But if we dig deeper, we will
truly find not only that life has meaning, but also that it is the very vocation of a human
being to discover this meaning. Viktor Frankl, who survived the Nazi Auschwitz and saw in
person how many victims in the concentration camps found meaning amidst their suffering,
concludes thus: “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather
must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and
he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by
being responsible.”
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