PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday
23 May 2015
FOLLOW
ME?
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Jesus answered, ‘If I want
him to stay behind until I come, what does it matter to you? You are to follow
me.’” (John 21:20-25)
Reflection. Eastertide ends with Jesus
in Jerusalem about to undergo his passiona and Paul in Rome about to endur his.
I have just been reading of the North American martyrs of the seventeenth
century and the torments they endured before their deaths.We end Easter time on
a high but we remind ourselves that it always means that journey to the cross.
There is always this weight on our shoulders as followers of Jesus and I am
thinking of one who is day in day out caring for her invalided husband who
constantly suffers. When Isaac Jogues was sent back to the land of the Iroquoi,
who had already tortured him, he went with dread but he knew deep down this was
what he “wished for and should have prized above all else.”
Prayer. Lord, as we leave
Eastertide, strengthen us for our journey and help us know that our
difficulties and trials are our following of you. Amen.
davidharoldbarry@hotmail.com
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