WHO ARE YOU?

PRAYER MOMENT  

Tuesday 8 April 2014

WHO ARE YOU?

Pause. Be still in the presence of God

Reading: “So they said to him, ‘Who are you?’” (John 8:21-30)

Reflection. When the woman of Samaria asks Jesus about the Messiah he tells her “I am he.” She gets a direct answer because she is genuinely searching. But when the Pharisees ask the same question Jesus does not answer because they are not really seeking to know him. They are trying to trap him. “You are of this world. I am not of this world.” Yesterday we heard that Frans van der Lugt, a Jesuit priest working in Syria since 1960, was taken out of his house by gunmen and shot. He had stayed with his handful of Christians and large number of Muslims in the old city of Homs when it was besieged and starved. Like the Samaritan woman, Frans knew the answer to the question “Who are you?” He had witnessed to that answer all his life.

  

Prayer. Lord, teach us to know you, not just in words, but in a personal encounter with you, so that we can really say, “Yes, I know you. You are the Christ, Son of the living God.” Amen.

David Harold-Barry SJ