PRAYER MOMENT
Tuesday
25 November 2014
NOT
A SINGLE STONE WILL BE LEFT ON ANOTHER
Pause. Be still in God’s presence.
Reading: “All these things you are
staring at now – the time will come when not a single stone will be left on
another: everything will be destroyed.” (Luke 21:5-11)
Reflection. Jesus gives this bleak
message to the people who were admiring the stonework and decoration of the
temple rebuilt by Herod the Great in the last period of the pre-Christian era.
Naturally they ask when this will happen and his answer moves beyond the
destruction of the temple in the year 69 to the end times which are “not so soon.”
The perspective we have during these last days of the church’s year is of the
impermanence in physical terms of what we achieve and create. We look around at
fine buildings and great technological advances and have to say, ‘yes, these
are wonderful but they won’t last.’ The only thing that lasts is the integrity
of our response to God. This alone we can take with us when we go.
Prayer. Lord, help us the see the
impermanence of all things. They are only stepping stones on our way to you. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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