PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
13 November 2013
THE OTHER NINE
Pause. Rest in the presence of the Lord
Reading. “Were
not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? (Luke 17:11-19)
Reflection. To
serve, to do things for people, is to enter into a relationship with them
somehow. But if they don’t notice it becomes rather one sided. Jesus felt this
when he cured the ten lepers: only one came back to say thank you. By doing so
this Samaritan responded to the offer of relationship to Jesus which was far
more important than the healing. Jesus did not heal many people. His healings
were only signs. What was really important was the relationship with his
Father. In the end the Church found a word to express its “thank you” to the
Father, not just for the signs Jesus worked, but for the gift of the fullness
of life that the father gives us in Jesus. The word is “Eucharist”. The
Eucharist is our enduring thank you to God and it forges and deepens our
relationship with the Father through Jesus in the Holy Spirit.
Prayer. As we say
each time in the Eucharist so now we pray, “through him, with him and in him,. In
the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours, almighty Father,
for ever and ever. Amen.
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