PRAYER MOMENT
Tuesday
31 March 2015
THE
SON OF MAN GLORIFIED
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Now has the Son of Man
been glorified, and in him God has been glorified.” (John 13:21-28)
Reflection. Perhaps it strikes us as
strange that Jesus talks of being glorified as he enters his passion. How many
patients stretched out on an operating table see this as their moment of glory?
We try this week to grasp that Jesus really did see this moment as his hour of
achievement. In Mark’s gospel, for instance, he has been saying all along, ‘don’t
tell anyone.’ But now in his moment of humiliation before Caiphas he pronounces
the divine name, ‘I am.’ Jesus trumphs in his moment of suffering. Ignatius of
Loyola struggled through eleven months of spiritual humiliation at Manresa.
Later he could see it was the making of him. One way or another that glory invites
us.
Prayer. Lord, let us know your
glory and give us some share in it. Amen.
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