PRAYER MOMENT
Easter
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
GO AND TELL
Pause. Be there
when Jesus meets Mary
Reading: “Go and
find the brothers and tell them; I am ascending to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.” (John 20:11-18)
Reflection. Each
day this week we read of a different encounter of the disciples with the risen
Jesus. People have tried to “harmonise” the descriptions but it probably can’t
be done. Each experience is different just as it is with us. We all experience
the risen Lord in our own way. Today it is Mary of Magdala. She battles to
understand her experience at first but ends with unspeakable joy clinging to
him. In John chapter one, the disciples had been invited to “come and see.” Now
they are told to “go and tell.” The experience of Jesus is immediately
something we want to share with others, just as we long to share any good news
with everyone. For our sharing to be authentic our experience of the Lord has
to be real. Pope Francis says, “I never tire of repeating the words of Benedict
XVI; “Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea,
but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives a new horizon and a
decisive direction.”
Prayer. Lord, teach
us to meet you in your risen life, to know you and share your good news with
others. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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