From St John’s Gospel, after the miraculous draught of fishes, ‘Jesus said to them [the disciples], “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish’.

St John Chrysostom wrote: ‘For they no longer had the same boldness, nor were they so confident, nor did they now approach Him with speech, but with silence and great fear and reverence, sat down giving heed to Him. For they knew that it was the Lord. And therefore they did not ask Him, “Who are You?” But seeing that His form was altered, and full of much awfulness, they were greatly amazed, and desired to ask somewhat concerning it; but fear, and their knowledge that He was not some other, but the Same, checked the enquiry, and they only ate what He created for them with a greater exertion of power than before …’

‘They knew it was the Lord’. May we learn how to listen, how to see the Lord at work not only in prayer, or in the dramatic events of our lives, but also in each smaller activity, that we may indeed ‘know’ Him.

May God bless you this day.