PRAYER MOMENT
Easter
Monday, 21 April 2014
IN A LOUD VOICE
Pause. Be there
when Peter addresses the crwd
Reading: “Then
Peter stood up with the eleven and addressed them in a loud voice.” (Acts 2:14, 22-32, Matt 28:8-15)
Reflection. What
has happened to the confused and frightened Peter? Here he is full of confidence
speaking forcefully to the people about the resurrection of Jesus. The impact
of that event has changed him and there is now a new energy that has a ripple
effect among his hearers and touches their hearts. We now enter the days of
Easter. It is the time for us to gather the same strength for the time ahead.
Victory is certain, not in some rhetorical sense but in real theological terms.
You cannot predict the outcome of a football match between two roughly equal
teams and much in life is uncertain. But here we are on firm ground. Faith
gives us utter certainty. What happened in the life of Jesus - his struggles,
his hopes, his joys and his certainty that the Father was always with him and
would see him through to victory –is what is happening with us. In that sense
victory is certain.
Prayer. Lord, we
now enter the time of Easter: the days stretch ahead when we breathe in the
strength and confidence you give us in your conquest of sin and death. Help us
to make your victory our own. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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