PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
14 May 2015, St Mathias
WITH
US
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “We must therefore choose someone
who has been with us all the time that the Lord Jesus has been travelling round
with us.” (Acts 1:15-26)
Reflection. Before Luke gets into the
body of Acts there is one bit of business to tidy up: Judas. He left a hole in
the college of the apostles, a group that was clearly designed by Jesus to
represent the twelve tribes of the new Israel. Having chosen Matthias we hear
no more about “the twelve.” The new Israel would not be based on selected
tribes but the whole of humanity. Still there is an urgency to complete the
group of “friends” (John 15:14) the Lord had chosen and to whom he “has made
known everything.” This community, this group that is “with us,” which will
gradually be called “church,” is the vital channel for the divine life to flow from
the vine into the branches. Its number must be completed.
Prayer. Lord, may we too be counted
among your friends, those who are “with you” in your joys and sufferings, your anxieties
and longings for our world. Amen.
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