PRAYER MOMENT
Tuesday
1 April 2014
LIVING WATER
Pause. Be still and
enter into the presence of God within.
Reading: “Wherever
the river flows, all living creatures teeming in it will live.” (Ezek 47:1-12, John
5:1-16)
Reflection. Water
is a constant theme in John’s gospel. It quenches thirst and its waters bring
healing. And all the while there is the underlying meaning of baptism through
whose waters a new birth comes to God’s people. Ezekiel prefigures this in a
poetic description of the waters rising in the temple and flowing “down to the
Arabah and the sea … bringing life and health …and every kind of fruit tree grows
on its banks with leaves that never wither and fruit that never fails.” So, at
this time of Lent we are given a huge dose of hope about the healing and the
new life that is promised through the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.
Prayer. Lord, let
us recall our own baptism or our own introduction to new life in whatever form
it happened. Help us to rejoice in the new life that you offer and, through our
lives, share it with others. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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