PRAYER MOMENT Thursday 23 January 2014 TWO WORLDS Pause. Be in the presence of God and imagine the crowds. Reading. “He warned them strongly not to make him known.” (Mark 3:7-12) Reflection. I once read of a prize giving at a school shortly before the First World War. There were crowds of proud parents and the students rejoiced in the recognition of their achievements. But as a reader, knowing what would soon happen, I had a heavy heart. Many of those happy youngsters would soon be die in the slaughter in France. “Great crowds,” Mark tells us, followed Jesus and were all “crowding forward to touch him.” But those crowds had no idea how his mission would be accomplished on Calvary and they would have found it incomprehensible if he told them. Are we so different today? We can “enjoy” the crowds, the singing and the ululating. But what happens when the cross comes into my life? Prayer. Lord, teach us to rejoice, even when we discover we are called to share in carrying your cross. Amen.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:08:24 +0000
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